Chapter 2 – Well…Hello…

AN: Ahahaha I forgot I started this story.

So far the voting is as below:

The ones in bold are the ones that are winning.

Rei/Heero – 6 (Jeez no one wants to see these two split up lol)

Rei/Duo – 1

Minako/Trowa - 3
Minako/Wufei – 1

Minako/Duo – 1

Ami/Qautre – 2

Ami/Duo – 2 (Out of the two winning this is the couple I would pick)

Ami/Heero – 1

Ami/ Wufei – 1 (I would rather write this couple)

Makoto/Wufei – 2 (Trowa is clearly already taken by Minako)

Makoto/Trowa – 2

Makoto/Duo - 1

Hotaru/Duo – 1

Hotaru/Wufei – 1

Hotaru/Quatre – 2 (I've never written Hotaru into one like this, how exciting!)

Hotaru/Heero – 1

On with the next chapter.

Small Lady, AKA Rini in this time went about her duties as quietly as she could, hoping no one would notice her. Honestly, when she and her mother had agreed to this plan Rini hadn't realized she would have to get a job, working for some ex-princess now Vice Minister. It just wasn't Rini's idea of a holiday at all. And she missed her boyfriend Helios. Rini was a princess, she shouldn't have to work, but her mother had pointed out that maybe a little work wouldn't hurt her. And working in the Vice Minister's house gave her a good opportunity to keep an eye out for the destined others of the inner senshi and of Hotaru, although Hotaru had no idea of this.

This day Rini was nearly knocked over by a young man with his chocolate brown hair braided down his back, who was screaming for help as a young man with black hair tied in a ponytail was chasing him with a katana. They came running from the room where Rini's boss was holding a conference and as the two of them left there were some embarrassed coughs from inside the room. The braided one mumbled sorry as Rini jumped out of the way just in time. Rini shook her head watching the two of them go. Duo and Wufei. Rini remembered their names from the photos she had in her room that her mother had provided her with to look for the destined loves. Wufei chasing Duo through the halls was a pretty much normal occurrence at the royal residence.

"Excuse me…" Rini turned when she heard a soft feminine voice calling for her attention and when Rini turned she came face to face with the mistress of the house, Vice Minister Dorlian, Relena to her friends.

"Yes Minister?" Rini bobbed a small curtsey and Relena smiled apologetically as she gestured to the door that Duo and Wufei had just run out of.

"Those two have just knocked over all our afternoon tea, would you mind cleaning it up and organizing for new meals?"

Would I mind? On the inside Rini bristled with rage. She was a princess, not a cleaner. But on the outside Rini smiled sweetly.

"Of course Minister," Rini nodded and Relena smiled thankfully and gestured for the other occupants of the room to follow her to a new room and Rini watched them all go. Heero, Quatre and Trowa. She knew then like she knew the back of her hand even though she had never spoken to any of them. Rini had done her study; she had kept watch over all of them. Rini grabbed her mop and strode into the room they just vacated to clean the mess. The Inners, really better appreciate this, she thought grumpily as she sighted the mess Duo and Wufei had made and she hung her head in resign, they really better appreciate this.

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Mars regained her senses and found herself at the bottom of a pile of bodies. And needless to say she really wasn't impressed.

"Get off me!" Mars growled furiously and the other girls mumbled their apologies.

They all stood up brushing themselves off and Venus helped Mars to her feet. They looked around and were shocked by the devastation that they found. They were in a city that looked as though it had been totally destroyed. There was no one in sight, just silence. The girls transformed back into their formal dresses staring wide-eyed at the dead scenery.

"Oh my goodness, I wonder what happened here," Mercury said more to herself than anyone else and Jupiter just shook her head, unable to say anything to express what she felt. Venus was similarly shocked as she crouched down to pick up a nearly charred raggedy doll, that was missing an eye, an arm and a leg.

"How terrible," Jupiter agreed her eyes and her voice filled with compassion.

Mars closed her eyes and could sense that there had been a lot of pain in this area, a lot of loss, and a lot of sadness, but it had happened some time ago.

"I wonder where Saturn is," Venus said looking around for their Firefly but no one could see her at all. This was a worry. How were they to continue their mission without Saturn.

Suddenly there were loud noises coming towards them. Loud mechanical noises, and they were getting closer. Each senshi grabbed her henshin stick ready to transform if need be and to their utter surprise 5, robot-like machines flew down landing in front of them. The robots and the girls stared at each other, none moving none speaking then the tops opened to revealed 5 young men, all staring down at them with the same expression. Distrust, suspicion. Not expressions that the girls were used to.

"Uh, hi, nice…big…things," Venus tried to talk to them jokingly and the young man with black hair snorted at her with contempt.

"You baka onna, these are Gundam's," he spat at her and Venus felt as though he had slapped her.
Mars and Jupiter glared in the young man's direction hatefully, each making a promise to make him regret his words. How dare he insult Venus, she was a princess and their leader. Mars took a step forward but was held back by Venus who shook her head, especially when she noticed all five young man had pulled guns out and had them trained on Mars.

"Do you think that I fear your guns?" Mars asked them, laughing at the absurdity.

When Crystal Tokyo had been purified and created the Crystal had blessed Rei not only with empathetic capabilities, and enhanced her powers of premonition but it had also made all of them immortal. They cold only die if they expelled all of their energy through the Crystal, if they gave all their energy to the Crystal.

"You should," another young man spoke up and Mars stared up at him proudly.

He was handsome this one, eyes of a blue Mars had never seen before and hair of brown, but his face, so cold and emotionless was handsome nonetheless.

"Please Mars, its not worth it," Venus tugged on Mars arm and Mars reluctantly allowed Venus to pull her backwards. Her temper wasn't worth these men finding out who they were and what their powers were.

"Are you with the OZ or with the Alliance?" a young man asked kindly, his blonde hair blowing in the wind and his blue eyes were clear and kind.

The girls stared blankly at him, and it was at that point in time Saturn came running onto the scene, dressed in her senshi uniform and she screamed out,

"Saturn Silence Wall!"

Her glaive created a wall of protection that the young men immediately started attacking with their guns and Saturn looked behind her at the other senshi.

"Run," Saturn bade them and all the girls took off running, transforming as they went and the gunfire ceased for the young men stared in shock as the girls transformed before their eyes and ran for cover.

Mars however didn't move, she merely transformed and stood there waiting. She wasn't going to leave Saturn by herself out there. The gunfire came again and Saturn couldn't hold the wall any longer, Mars knew this, and just as Saturn's wall gave out, Mars ran and covered Saturn with her body. Although Mars and the other inner senshi were immortal, Saturn was not, not yet. To be immortal as the inner senshi were, you had to die a mortal death, and Saturn had not gone through this and Mars wanted to save her the pain, for it hurt more than death to become immortal. Saturn was still only nineteen, she didn't need to feel it yet. Mars felt about 10 bullets hit her in the back before she passed out.

"Rei-chan!" Saturn cried out and the young men stopped firing not knowing what to make of this. They couldn't believe the girl now dressed in red and given up her life for the girl in purple. The other girls came running out now and crowded around the dead girl and the young men dared to descend from their machines and ventured towards the group of girls.

"Give her room Saturn, here comes the breath of life," Venus pulled Saturn back and Saturn watched with fascination. She had never seen how the inner senshi came back to life after dying. She knew this would be her fate very soon.

The young men frowned with suspicion, their guns still cocked and ready.

All watched as Mars began glowing with a red light and the wounds disappeared as Rei's eyes opened wide and she took a deep breath sitting up.

The young men nearly passed out upon seeing this, they all stepped backwards aiming their guns at her.

"Damn, I hate that part," Rei muttered holding her head, hoping the pounding would stop sometime soon and one of the young men ventured forward.

"You're not like, the walking dead or something are you," he asked curiously and Mars took one look at his petrified face and burst out into laughter.

"No, I'm not," she chuckled and Duo gave a sigh of relief.

"Thank God!" Duo let out his cry thankfully and Jupiter and Mercury exchanged glances smirking finding his antics a little strange.

"Please, I don't want anyone else to get hurt, we are not with the OZ or the Alliance, we don't even know what they are, we are from a different world far far away and we are just looking for someone," Venus said turning to the other young men and the one with black hair snorted looking off into the distance. The one who had yet to say anything looked down at the ground still not saying a word.

"Who are you looking for?" the blonde haired one asked again and Venus smiled fondly thinking of their Small Lady.

"Our princess," she replied and Quatre was going to ask a few more questions when Heero suddenly spoke his gun pointed at Mars who was getting to her feet with the help of Saturn.

"How is this one is still alive?" he demanded in monotone and the girls all froze not knowing what to tell them.

"Perhaps Heero, if we get them to Lady Une and have tests done on the girls we will get all our answers then," Quatre suggested and Heero stared herder at Mars and nodded.

"Agreed."

"So how bout it? If you agree to some tests, we will help you find your princess as best we can," Quatre gave them the ultimatum and the girls all looked at each other helplessly and then at Venus, as their leader, she had the final say. Venus was looking at the ground, not saying anything and Mars nudged her.

"Venus?" Mars prompted and Venus looked up nodding her head.

"Agreed."

AN: ok that part is done. Sorry if it was crap but I think this is going ok.