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Six Years After Colony 175

Heero Yuy, once the pilot of Gundam Zero, and having become the Pilot of Gundam Tallgeese looked through the bars of his "Suite" at the area that was Colony 169. They had arrested him and his fellow Gundam Pilot's the second they had stepped foot on the colony, and charged them with espionage. While this was the way of their mission, they denied it to the very last, even when they had started beating them to get the answers they wanted. They were the ones that had taken down OZ, and that alone kept their tongues in check when the guards continued to hurl insults at them.

"Heero," Duo said from the next cell, they were all in separate cells. They could see each other, and they were in constant contact with one another, but it did little to help them at the moment. With no way to contact Shang, their one way of breaking out of the Colonies prison was bust. The communicators and weapons had been taken from them once they had been searched, not giving them the time to call in reinforcements. "Heero, is there a way we can signal Shang? Or even the Alliance?"

Heero stayed silent as he thought of the same thing. They were stuck, but a smile creapt across his face. He had forgotten about the fail safe. "Don't worry about it Duo, just keep your mouth shut. It'll be a long couple of days." Trowa and Quatre began to walk over, listening up. "If they start asking us again, keep to the line. They have not proof that we've done anything." Looking to each man, he moved back to his bunk, and began to think of what he should be doing right now. "Has anyone talked to Relena lately? She said she had something to tell me when I got back."

"Well she's your wife," Duo said as he also sat down on his own bunk. "Maybe that whole marriage thing has gotten to her. Or she doesn't want to be married to the man who destroyed her world and then helped her rebuild it."

"Or she's pregnant," Trowa said from his cell on the other side of the hall. "That tends to happen when married people are together long enough." A rough chuckle rumbled through the others at this comment.

"Duo Maxwell! On your feet and keep quiet!" Three guards came into the block, slamming their gundanium night sticks on the bars, making some of the other prisoners; none of which the pilots talked too; jump back and cuss with broken fingers or knuckles. Duo, already on his feet looked deadpan at the guards and shook his head. There was a certain amount of predictability when they came to call, mostly the other inmates would cry out that they were innocent, or that they wanted some type of legal representation. The cries fell on deaf ears, and for the most part, were ignored by other prisoners. They had all either said, or heard it all before. The ones that kept quiet had been in there long enough to know the cries did no good, or thought that they were in there on accident.

"We're going to have a little talk Tallgeese," one of the guards said, looking right at Duo, which elicited a laugh from him.

"Tallgeese wasn't mine moron," Duo said, ducking a blow from one of the night sticks. "If you're going to try and use some sort of code name built off the armor's that we used, then at least get the names right." The other pilots started to chuckle, gaining glares and even impudent swipes from the guards.

"Yea moron," Trowa said, laughter evident in his voice. "Leave Epyon alone." This brought another chuckle from the pilots, which brought a back hand to Duo's laughing lips.

"Keep quiet, or we'll put you all in lock down spy." The chuckles and laughter died away, but the smiles couldn't be killed so easily. "And keep the chatter down. We won't warn you again." As they started leading Duo off, Heero looked over his shoulder, out the window into the night. A bright dot of light was crossing over the horizon. His smile could light up a small country as the light came closer.

"We'll keep quiet all right," he muttered, turning his head back to the guards. "But it won't be for long."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Interogation~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"You're going to tell us why you're here Duo Maxwell. I'm tired of hearing the words that you're here because of Relena Yuy. She doesn't emissaries, she sends assassins." The female guard looked hard at Duo, but never gave her name. Built as a leggy super model, she commanded attention from everyone as she spoke. Her long flaxen hair hung to the middle of her back, and a small beauty mark marred her face on the left side right above her finely crafted eye brow.

"I've told you before, we're here on Relena's orders to try and talk you into coming back to the Alliance. We don't exactly know what else is out here, after the Colonies. For all we know, there is some other force at work. We're supposed to also let her know about the claims that you have Mobile Suits either in production, or already stock piled. We're here to stop another civil war from happening."

"So you are here to spy on us!" the woman exclaimed, trying to warp the words to her favor.

"I don't know how asking to be shown your depots is spying, but evidently you have ample evidence to hold us." Duo shrugged and stood from the chair that he had been roughly shoved into before the interview began. "And I do hope that you've let it be known that you've caught us off the Alliance registered shuttle, and that you're holding us for espionage." The woman huffed at him then sneered.

"We've told the weak Alliance nothing. They don't need to know that we've caught you in the act of trying to sneak into our air space, or that the saintly Relena…" A smile lit upon her face, but was quickly crushed as the far wall, one that held a window was caved in by a large Dragon's head, that opened. Duo jumped up, then inside the mouth, then was whisked away as he smiled back. Waving, the dragon's head closed, then receded back into the arm of Shenlong, who's cockpit was open, showing the four other Pilot's standing in the opening.

"Thanks for having us!" Duo yelled as he also climbed into the opening. "We'll make sure that everyone knows about your five star accommodations!" Laughing, he seemed to grab a small device that was handed to him, and four more stars began to twinkle, and grow brighter. Around the suit fell four other Suits, Heavyarms, Deathscythe, Sandrock, and Tallgeese. The four pilots jumped from where they stood, landing on various parts of their respective machines. The cockpits in their chests opened, and they climbed inside as one.

"A warning to Colony 169," a voice said from Shenlong. "If you plan on attacking us, we will defend ourselves to the full extent given to us."

"And that's a hell of a lot," Duo's voice was heard coming from Deathscythe. "So we suggest that you stand down, and let us go on our marry way." The cockpits closed as one, and they took defensive stances. As they did so, several large rounds collided with various parts of the machines.

"This is your last warning," Trowa said through the speakers in his own Gundam Suit. "If you attack us again, we will be forced to defend ourselves." Another salvo of rounds slammed into the individual suits, pushing them back a step. "Well, you asked for it." Twin massive Gatling guns spun whirring loudly. Several tank like vehicles moved into position, and were cut down within seconds. The chest pieces of the armor opened, displaying the rockets that were armed and ready for the next attack. On the right arm, a blade snapped up, glinting in the artificial lights of the Colony.

"Try to keep this city in one piece," Quatre said before launching his own attack at the two tanks that came rolling up and firing at him. In seconds, they were destroyed as well, with a painful sigh from Quatre. "We want a peaceful resolution 169, it doesn't have to be like this."

"The hell it doesn't," the interrogators voice said as a Mobile Suit slammed into the pavement in front of Deathscythe. "You're here in direct violation of our governing laws, sent to spy, and destroy us. Colony 169 will not stand for this again! We declare our freedom with the blood spilled by your own actions!" Her energy rifle, small by design began a rapid firing at Deathscythe, which seemed to laugh at the weapon. Not even bothering to power up the energy weapon he carried, Duo shook his head, and aimed his light cannons at her. As the two 225 m.m. cannons located to the high left and right of both "eyes" began to fire, the suit began to collapse in on its self, making it a smaller target.

"Hey!" Duo exclaimed, powering up the Scythe, which gave his suit it's name. Spinning it high above the suits head, in classic Duo style, he brought the energy blade down on where the other suit originally was, only to find that it had disappeared. "Did anyone see what happened?" he called to his other pilots.

"No, she was there one second, and then she wasn't the next." Trowa answered, his suit looking around as well. As usual, Chang said nothing, but kept his own weapons at the ready. Heero, scanning the area in Tallgeese was the first to be struck, armor to armor by the opponent they couldn't see. The sound was horrible, but he laughed as the small weapon that the woman bore on her mobile suit went off into his knee joint, doing little to no damage.

"We could leave, destroy this Colony, then come back and find out how many suits they had," Heero said, unlocking the safety to the massive weapon that his suit carried. Charging up the power to one fourth of what it would take to destroy a normal Gundam suit, he waited for his voice to carry out to the unseen assailant.

"You wouldn't!" she screamed, the suit unfolding and coming into sight, right in front of Heavyarms. The energy cannon quickly aimed, then fired, blowing the bottom half of the suit off, scrapping Heavyarms with a little shrapnel.

"You're paying for the paint job," came the retort from Trowa, who reached down and picked up the suit, making it look like a father picking their kid up by the scruff of the neck. "Now Miss Torture, we're going to ask one last time, how many suits does this colony have stock piled?"

"How's this for an answer," another voice said from behind Deathscythe. Trowa, Heero, Chang, Quatre, and Duo all spun their suits to see who had answered for the woman they now had in custody.

"Oh great," Duo said, slumping in his seat. "They've got another OZ full of Leo's."

"They're not Leo's Duo, they don't register as anything that's ever been used before," Chang said after looking at his new opponents. "What would Relena say to this Heero?" Tallgeese just stood there, the energy cannon powering back up, but he couldn't bring himself to murder this many people again. It wasn't a war they were after, but it was certainly turning out to be that way.

"Retreat. They want to break away from the Alliance, then we're going to let them do so. With the understanding that if they attack any of the Colonies under our protection, then we five will come back, an annihilate them." Dropping the suit that they had captured, the Gundams started to power up their rockets, sending them into a light orbit, then beyond it. They were due home, to report what was happening, and that it wasn't any good to hide the Gundams any longer.

"Once we get home, we don't allow anyone else to build these suits. We're all that's needed, and we can handle anything that 169 brings to the table. After a year or so of loneliness, and of not getting any shipments of goods, they'll come crawling back." Little did they know, but other Colonies had witnessed the break away, and the suits that had been built and used against the hero's of the Alliance.

"Sometimes you're just too nice to people Quatre," Duo said, after the man had stopped talking. "But I have to agree. We're going to be in for a long struggle if they decide to fight, and train their people on how to use the suits that we saw. It's time to pull away from Colony 169, respect it's air space, and just let it go at that."

"We'll see what Relena says when we get home," Chang said, to the surprise of everyone. "She's the one that has to deal with the political struggle of this happening. We're just the soldiers, so what we say has little meaning to it. What she says holds the greatest power over the Alliance as a whole."

"Yea, if they don't ask for her resignation after what happened at 169," Dup said, setting his power higher to get himself and his suit back home.

"Shut up Duo!" The rest of pilot's said, with a laugh in their voices. It was going to be a long flight home for all of them, but only Heero felt the pain of what was really going on.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Back on Colony 169~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"We will rise up against what the Alliance has done to us today!" yelled the voice of the woman who had interrogated Heero and his friends. "I will train you all on how to use our weapons of war, and we will take over the Alliance, one Colony at a time! We will not stand for the injustice that has been brought to us today on the wings of Mobile Suits that we had been promised were destroyed!" The woman was animated in her speech. Using every trick that she could remember from her days as a speaker for OZ. "And the Alliance will tremble at the sound of our approach as we bring our weapons to bear! They mean to starve us, but we will take what we want, and give nothing back to them! We will become the new leaders of the Universe!" A massive cheer went up from the people of Colony 169, a sea of people that never seemed to end. The woman smiled and looked down at her now loyal subjects. It was all working as she had planned it.

"Now sister, we will find out who is really meant to rule Father's kingdom."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Earth~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Heero, I said I news for you," Relena said with a kiss as Tallgeese landed in the open of the Presidential palace for the Alliance. As the others landed in plain sight, she knew that it had gone bad on Colony 169. When they all climbed down, she could see how bad it had truly gone. "Before you tell me what went on out there," she said to five scowling faces. "I wanted to let you all know that Heero and I are having a baby." The scowls turned quickly to masks of shock, and Heero passed out on the grass.

"Good going Relena," Dup said with a chuckle, looking down at his old friend. "I think you just killed the man that saved all our lives."

"Later Duo," Chang said as he moved forward and bowed to Relena. "Right now is a time for Celebration of life, before the coming of death."