I hope you all enjoy the chapter, as much as I had fun writing it. I just love writing Duo, he just seems to write himself, plus he's fun to write.

Chapter 18

Once the disposal satellite arrived in Earth's orbit, it would seem that Trowa and Duo were waiting there for them, since there was a shuttle there at the rendezvous point. It didn't take very long for Duo and Trowa to work their way into the satellite once it came to a stop.

Quatre and Serena watched them make their way over on the screen in the control room for a moment, before they left the control room to go and meet up with them. Quatre, of course, led the way to the room that held the three Gundams. He was sure that would be the room the two would be heading to.

"Long time no see, Old Buddy." Duo said, greeting his Gundam, once he and Trowa made it to the room that held the Gundams.

"Duo, Trowa!" Quatre called out, as he and Serena made their way into the spacious room, not to long after Duo and Trowa got there.

"Ya know, Quatre, I'm a bit surprised that you let Serena come with you." Duo said, as Serena and Quatre floated over to him and Trowa. "I thought you wanted to keep her away from things like this."

"Well, she didn't give me much of a choice." Quatre stated. "If I had my way, she would still be with Rashid on the Interplanetary Transport Ship."

"But, problems arose, and I jumped to help out." Serena added her two cents, before anyone could say anything to what Quatre said. "Besides, if you had your way, I would still be on L4."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Duo asked, wondering what she was getting at by saying 'problems arose'. This caused Quatre to look over at his sister.

"What?" Serena asked, as if she were innocent in all of this.

Quatre slightly shook his head a bit at his sister's antics, as he turned back to Duo. "It's a bit of a story." Quatre admitted.

"You can tell us about it later." Trowa said, choosing that moment to speak up. "We should get going."

"Right." Duo and Quatre agreed, speaking at the same time.

And before any of them could move, Quatre turned to look over at his sister, to see her floating there with her arms crossed, with a look on her face that said that she was going to be difficult again. "I suppose you're not going to give me much choice, are you?" Quatre asked, pretty much knowing what his sister was going to say already. The only answer Serena gave was a nod of her head.

"Wait a minute!" Duo said, a bit surprised at what he thought was going to happen. "You're not seriously going to let your sister come with us, are you?"

"It would seem she's not going to give me much choice, as she has been doing so far." Quatre explained. "And it would seem that my sister is quite capable of taking care of herself."

"Ok, now I really want to know what that's supposed to mean." Duo said, noticing that there was something hidden in there that the two siblings knew, that the rest of them didn't know.

"Are you sure about this?" Trowa asked, making sure Serena wouldn't regret going with them.

Serena's answer was not something Duo and Trowa were expecting. For Serena's answer was to transform into Sailor Moon, right in front of the three of them. To say the two of them were a bit surprised would've been an understatement. This was not something they would've suspected.

This surprise got a whistle from Duo. "Well, damn." Duo said, rather impressed and amazed. "So didn't see that one coming."

"And to answer your question." Serena said, turning her attention to Trowa now. "I've spent most of my time wanting to help out during the war, but couldn't. So, if I can help now, I will."

"Well, I suppose that does answer that question." Duo commented, looking over at Trowa, convinced that Serena meant what she said.

"If you're sure." Trowa asked, just wanting to make sure one more time.

"Yes." Serena answered, rather determined, not to be detoured form her decision. "I'm positive."

That answer caused the two, both Serena and Trowa, to just stare at each other. It was as if Trowa was trying to gauge how serious she was about this, and Serena seemed to be holding her ground, not willing to be detoured from what she had decided.

"So, how is she coming with us to Earth?" Duo asked, trying to break the staring contest up, plus he really wanted to know the answer to that question anyway.

Well, Duo succeeded in one thing, Serena stopped staring at Trowa, to look over at Quatre, as the two siblings shared a look. Trowa seemed to recognize the silent conversation passing between the siblings. "The Gundams were really only built for one person in the cockpit." Trowa pointed out, figuring that is what the two were thinking of. That got the two to look over at Trowa.

"I think she could fit behind the seat." Quatre commented, not really seeing much other choice. And Serena was agreeing with him, also not seeing much choice in the matter.

"Alright, if your that dead set on this." Trowa said, practically sighing. All Serena gave in return was a determined nod; it was obvious she wasn't going to be backing out any time soon. And Trowa was starting to see what Quatre meant by Serena not giving him much choice, she was extremely determined to help out.

"Well, it looks like everything is decided." Duo said, looking at each of them, ready to get their show on the road. "So, let's get going!"

Trowa took one last glance at Serena before nodding in agreement.

"Right." Quatre said, agreeing with Duo, that they should get going. Serena had a small smile on her face, happy that they were going to let her help, and that she wasn't going to have to put up much of a fight about it. "Come on." Quatre said, grabbing his sister's gloved hand, as the two headed over to Sandrock. Trowa and Duo took that as their cue to head to their Gundams, and to get them out of their containers, and get them ready to go.

The task of getting the Gundams out of their containers and ready to go, didn't seem to take them to long to do. Maybe it only took a bit, because they were in hurry, or maybe it was because of something else. But, whatever the reason, they were happy it didn't take so long.

Once they had the Gundams on their feet, Quatre let his sister into the cockpit of Sandrock, helping her to climb in behind the seat. "Hold on tightly, alright?" Quatre advised, as he got back into the pilot's seat and strapped himself back in. "I don't want you getting hurt back there, because it will probably get rather bumpy at times."

"Right." Serena agreed, holding onto the seat, as if for dear life, as well as bracing herself if it indeed did get bumpy.

It was at that moment that Quatre maneuvered Sandrock to pick up a kind of cloak and wrapped it around the shoulders of his Gundam. Sandrock needed this cloak so it would be able to go through the Earth's atmosphere on its own.

"Are you ready?" Quatre asked his sister.

"Yes." Serena answered confidently. She couldn't be more ready than she was right now. "I can't believe you still have those." Serena was referring to the goggles that her brother had just put on, the goggles that use to be Rashid's. Even though she was a bit surprised to see them, she figured she probably shouldn't have been, she probably should've expected it.

"Are you both ready to go?" Quatre asked Trowa and Duo over the vid-com's in their suits.

"Yeah!" Duo answered, raring to go. "Anytime you are!"

"This is what Operation Meteor should be." Trowa said, as his way of saying that he was ready.

"Let's go, now!" Quatre said, as he piloted Sandrock to cut down the bay doors that were a part of the room that held the Gundams in the satellite.

Once the doors were cut open, the three Gundams quickly left the satellite and headed for Earth. It was a rather silent affair between the four of them as they headed to Earth, as well as when they went through the Earth's atmosphere. It would seem that all four of them were focused on the task ahead of them. After getting through the Earth's atmosphere, the three Gundams headed straight for where the fight was.

Once they were close enough to the fight to see what was going on, Serena couldn't help but be amazed by what she saw. Seeing things first hand was so different than seeing it on the TV. "All those…" Serena said, a bit of amazement entering her voice, as she was referring to all the lights she could see from the fight. "…there all mobile suits?'

"Yes." Quatre answered. "Now do you see why I said that this was a battle drawn out with mobile suits?"

"I already figured that." Serena commented, still sounding just as determined as she had been all this time.

"Then why…?" Quatre started to ask, but was cut off.

"This battle in front of us is drawn out with mobile suits." Serena pointed out, putting emphasis on the word 'is'. "But, getting to Relena isn't."

Quatre didn't say anything to this for a moment or two, as he stared up and over his pilot seat to look at his sister. It didn't sound like a suggestion to him, it sounded like something she was determined to do. "Are you sure about this?" Quatre asked, not too sure of the idea himself. "There will be soldiers down there that will probably be more likely to shoot at you if they see you."

"I'm sure." Serena said, looking down at her brother. "I'm absolutely positive that I want to do this."

And it was that determination that he couldn't argue with. There was no way he was going to be able to change her mind. He was just going to have to go along with her idea, and just hope for the best. "Alright." Quatre said, resigning himself to this decision.

It didn't take them to much longer to get to the heart of the fighting. As Quatre made his presence known as he cut the heads off of three mobile suits, at the same time saving two mobile suits that were being ganged up on.

"I'm glad we weren't too late." Quatre said, over the com to the two suits that he just saved. It would seem that Quatre knew them. And it was just then that Quatre ejected the cloak that he had on his Gundam, since it wasn't needed anymore.

"Quatre?!" A female voice called out from one of the suits, it would seem that this person was surprised to see him there.

Quatre didn't waste any time in getting down to business, as he cut down two more mobile suits that came at him, but he didn't destroy them, just merely disabled them. "You two are truly impressive." Quatre said, giving praise to the two he saved, as Quatre lifted the goggles so now they were sitting on his forehead, instead of having them over his eyes, like he had been wearing the, up until that point. "You've fought this many without killing one soldier."

"I'd be glad if we could teach these people something." The female voice answered back. She sounded like she wished they didn't have to fight at all, but had resigned herself to the outcome of having to fight.

Quatre noticed that Duo and Trowa were now making themselves known as well. He figured that this was as good enough time as he would probably get. He just hoped that they were a good enough distraction. But, he figured one more distraction couldn't hurt. "Miss Noin." Quatre called out to the female voice.

"What is it, Quatre?" Noin answered, wondering if there was a problem.

'Noin, so that's her name.' Serena thought to herself, cataloging the name for later, getting this feeling that she would probably officially meet this person later.

"Could you cover me for a moment?" Quatre asked. "I have someone with me that wishes to try and find Miss Relena."

"Of course, Quatre." Noin answered, a bit of confusion entering her voice. "But, who are you talking about?"

"You'll see in a moment." Quatre answered, as he maneuvered his Gundam off to the side and made it kneel down, so it would be closer to the ground, and opened the hatch to the cockpit once it was close enough to the ground.

Noin kept watch out for any mobile suits that came their way, while also keeping an eye on Quatre, waiting to see just who he was talking about.

Quatre, without getting himself out of his seat, reached back to give his sister his hand, so she could steady herself as she climbed out and around the seat Quatre was sitting in. "Be careful." Quatre said, as his sister made it to the open hatch.

"I will." Serena answered back, giving her brother one last look and a reassuring smile before she jumped off of Sandrock and landed on the ground, taking off for the building that was supposed to have Relena in it.

Noin watched the interaction between the two, as well as hearing it over the com's in their suits. She was a bit surprised by the fact that the two seemed to know each other, as well as the care in their voices when they spoke. What really surprised her though, was the fact that Quatre had, none other than, Sailor Moon with him. This was a person that she had heard of, but thought was nothing but a legend, or a fairytale. Before now, she would've told you that Sailor Moon and the other Sailor Scouts were not real…but now…now she had seen Sailor Moon with her own eyes, maybe there was some truth to those stories after all.

Quatre watched, for a moment, as his sister ran off, before he closed the hatch to his cockpit. "Thank you, Miss Noin." Quatre said, as Sandrock stood back up, and got ready to join back in on the fighting once more.

"No problem, Quatre." Noin replied back. "But, where did you find her?"

"Well, let's just say that she found me." Quatre answered, not really wanting to say much more on the matter. After all, it was his sister's secret. "She told me how she wished she could've helped in the war, and how she couldn't. So, when this current conflict came up, she was determined to help in any way she could. The idea of finding Relena was hers."

"I see." Noin replied, as she took all of that in. But, the two weren't given any more time to talk as the fighting separated them.

It didn't take Serena very long to find a way inside the building. She was able to find a, somewhat, hidden escape access route, and used that to sneak into the building. And so far, she hadn't been found out. Every time she heard someone coming her way, she would duck out of the way and out of sight somewhere. That is, until she was going down this one hallway when someone reached out and grabbed her, quickly pulling her into a side room. Before Serena could do anything when she was grabbed, a second hand covered her mouth as well, to prevent her from making any noise.

"What are you doing here?" A female voice asked, practically demanded, as Serena was pushed the rest of the way into the room, and was let go of. Serena turned right around when she heard the sound of the door close, practically not two seconds later.

When Serena turned around and saw what the woman was wearing, Serena paused. "A Preventer?" Serena wondered, as she saw the jacket the woman was wearing.

"The Head of the Preventers, actually." The Preventer woman answered, with a not very pleased look on her face. "Again, I'll ask, what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to help the others, and because I want to help!" Serena answered, once again taking a determined stance on the matter.

"The others?" The Preventer woman questioned. "Who are you referring to?"

"I'm here helping the Gundam Pilots." Serena answered, still just as determined. "I may not know how to use a mobile suit like they can, so, it was my idea to come looking for Relena, for if that's the only way I can help out, then that is what I'm going to do!"

"I see." The Preventer woman said, taking everything that was said in. "You seem rather determined about this."

"You have no idea." Serena commented. The two stared at each other for a moment or two before either spoke again. "And you are?" Serena was the one to break the momentary silence.

"Lady Anne Une." The Preventer woman answered. "And like I said before, I'm the Head of the Preventers."

"I'm…" Serena started to introduce herself, in turn, but was interrupted.

"I already know who you are, Miss Moon." Lady Une said, accepting the fact that the two of them were probably going to be working together the rest of the way to the command room of the building.

"Please, don't call me that." Serena said, not to happy being called that. Serena noticed that Lady Une seemed to be a bit confused by that statement, so, Serena went to explain why, "An enemy of mine use to call me that."

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize that." Lady Une apologized.

"It's alright, you know now." Serena reassured, then looked back at the door. "We should get going."

"You're right." Lady Une agreed, as the two left the room and continued on their way to their destination.

The two of them worked together as they continued to make their way through the building. Lady Une usually had Serena hold back if they did run into someone, while she took care of the problem and cleared the way, so Serena could follow after her. It would seem that Lady Une was taking it upon herself to keep Serena out of the fighting for as long as she could. But, there were times where Serena ended up protecting Lady Une, instead of Lady Une making sure the way was clear for Serena. For these few moments, Serena ended up protecting them from gun fire, using the Silver Crystal to form a shield, something that she somewhat learned while she was with Quatre in space when they were getting the Gundams back.

Serena thought that this would take awhile to get all the way to where they needed to go. But, either this was going quicker than Serena originally thought it would, or time was flying by since they were so occupied with getting where they wanted to go, while trying not to be noticed. Finally, they were almost to their destination, but they still treaded cautiously, after all, they still didn't want to be noticed.

The battle outside of the building was starting to wear down. The three Gundams were gathered in one area of the battlefield, almost back to back, as their weapons were either failing them now or were running out of ammunition.

"I've got nothing left." Duo announced, as his thermal scythe just ran out of juice. "But, our self-detonating devices could take out about half of the remaining suits. What do ya think?"

"No." Trowa answered. "Detonation should be done away from them. We must limit casualties to just ourselves."

"Yeah, guess you're right." Duo agreed, seeing Trowa's logic.

Just then, the systems within all the mobile suits there started to pick up something, as a beeping started to sound, with an arrow pointing up on one of the screens in the cockpit.

"Where?!" Trowa asked, wondering if it was friend or foe.

"Above us!" Duo said, directing everyone's attention to the sky.

"Heero?" Quatre whispered. Quatre noticed what Heero was about to do, and quickly debated on if he should tell Heero that Serena was in there or not. The importance of family quickly won out. Quatre didn't waste any more time as he opened a communications channel to Heero. "Heero!"

"What is it, Quatre?" Heero calmly asked, not taking his eyes off of his target.

"I thought I should tell you that Serena is in there." Quatre stated, already resigning himself to the answer that he was expecting from Heero.

"Why?" Heero asked, still looking at his intended target.

"She went in there looking for Relena." Quatre explained, still resigned to the idea that this probably won't change Heero's mind, but Quatre felt that he had to at least try.

"Hn." Was all Heero gave in reply. You could tell by the sound of it that Heero was not going to be detoured from what he was intending to do, but at the same time, you could hear in that tone that he hoped that she makes it out of this alright. Quatre tried not to sigh, as he ended the communications transmission to Heero. Quatre figured that at least he tried; all he could do now was hoped that his sister lived through this.

I hope that you all enjoyed the chapter. I now have more time to myself, since my summer job has come to an end for the year. Now I just need to find another job to last me the rest of the year until summer again.