ZT: Hey everyone! Sorry I didn't update as soon as I wanted to; I was swamped with work the last few weeks. But I'm back now with a new chapter! I don't own Gundam Wing. Enjoy!

Fate Sucks 2: Clash of the Moon and Star

Chapter 6

Everyone stood there in complete shock. How was it possible? It wasn't possible! But there she was. Laury was rambling on and on to Quatre about how she missed him and asking him what he was up to along with other things that they couldn't make out.

Vanessa found her senses first and walked over to the bubbly redhead, "Laury?"

Laury turned around, "Nessa!" She hugged the dark haired girl, "I missed you so much!" Then she ran over to Duo, "Duo!" He received a hug. "Trowa!" He received a hug. "Wufei!" He got one too. "Heero!" She glomped him last.

"What's going on here woman? Why aren't you like the others?" Wufei asked, still in complete shock.

Laury blinked, "Like the others? Well, if I were like the others, I wouldn't be me. I'd be Alex…and Ally, and Sai, and Ness, and Milliardo, and Lucrezia, and Kyle and Damien- and that's a lot of work to be all of them and not myself."

"That's not what I meant!" Wufei exclaimed in irritation, "How is it that you are alive?"

"Well that's a silly question! I'm alive because I was born and haven't died yet," she said.

Duo looked at her in disbelief, "No kidding?"

"Quit playing around, Laury. Did more than one of you escape?" Heero asked, not wanting to go into a ridiculous game of "twenty questions Laury style".

"Well, no offense Laury, but I don't think you woulda been able to get out of there on your own…none of ya would actually." The others turned around to see a woman coming down into the hanger the same way they had.

Duo recognized the woman, "Hey! You were the waitress!"

She nodded, "I play many roles; waitress is just one of them."

Laury waved at the newcomer, "Hi Kyle!" She blinked, "Oh yeah, you guys don't know her! Kyle, this is Quatre, Wufei, Trowa, Duo, Heero, and Nessa. Quatre, Wufei, Trowa, Duo, Heero, Nessa, this is Kyle. She's Night Star's new assistant."

Whether they showed it or not, a few hearts grew heavy at the news. "Night Star has a new assistant?" Quatre asked sadly.

Vanessa's reaction was a little different though. She grabbed Laury's shoulders and looked the redhead straight in the eye, "Night Star has a new assistant! Night Star is ALIVE!"

Laury nodded bubbly, "Yep!"

"WHO ELSE MADE IT OUT!" she practically screamed.

"Ow! Geez! D'ya have to yell so loud?" All attention turned to the person working under the hood of the car as she looked at them, wiping some grease off her face. Her long strawberry blond hair was pulled back to keep it out of her eyes. Her teal eye sparkled with humor when she saw the speechless faces, especially the look on one's particular face, "Hiya, Wuffy!"

"Y-You crazy woman!" Wufei exclaimed, looking like he was ready to kill the blond.

Alex looked at him innocently, "What?"

"Don't you 'what' me! You know exactly 'what'!" he yelled.

"Alex, leave them alone," a kind voice came from underneath the car, "They must be in total shock right now; you playing with their minds will not help, especially since they ran into Laury first." The person pushed herself out from underneath it and put away the wrench she was holding before wiping her own face to reveal Allison underneath all the grease.

Vanessa looked at the three girls, her team members whom she thought had died a year ago, "All of you…how is it…?"

Allison smiled, "We missed you too, Nessa."

Laury grinned largely, "Yay! Group hug!" She glomped the other three members of LAVA, "We're all back together again! Isn't it great!"

"But, HOW are you all back together again?" Quatre asked finally, "We thought only Vanessa escaped!"

"That's what I thought too," Vanessa added, looking at the other females for an answer.

Alex sighed, "You're not gonna believe this one, but Night had one of those teleporters too."

Vanessa looked at the blond in shock, "Are you kidding me!"

"Nope," Alex answered.

"Well, if you girls were alive this whole time, why didn't you get a hold of us?" Duo asked finally, voicing one of the many questions on everyone's minds.

The three exchanged glances; they had expected this question but were still not quite sure how to answer it. However, Kyle spared them an explanation, "Well, we've seen the e-mails that have been sent to you, so you guys can't say you haven't had issues with the pseudo-Night Star. Well, we believe that the person behind this is the same person who was behind New Oz last year. Why he's still doing things when New Oz has been disbanded, we have no clue, but Night Star wanted to stop our little friend before he or she caused any more trouble. We knew that if any news of LAVA still being in business or Night Star being alive got out, you guys would become prime targets once again."

"More than that, the person's style is not only similar to Night Star's, but it also resembles the style of someone we had to deal with during the Eve wars," Allison added.

"I don't ever remember anyone with a similar style to Night's," Vanessa said, a little confused.

"It was before you joined the team. The guy used to send people on missions, pretending to be their commanders or what not. Then while they were there, he would have set a trap to have them captured or destroyed, depending on which gave him the better pay," Alex explained.

"He was SOOO tough! We used to track him non-stop! Every rebel group or union, even OZ at one point wanted us to catch this guy and put 'em down. But, a few months before you came into the picture, Nessa, he disappeared," Laury put in, using hand gestures to emphasize what she was saying.

"And the reason you didn't tell me this…?" Vanessa glanced at Allison and Alex in particular.

Allison paused for a moment, trying to find the right way to say what she wanted to say, "This person was probably the only person who we could all agree was absolutely heartless. We also all agreed long ago when he first disappeared that if he were to ever return, we would not bring in any more people than was absolutely necessary to bring him down because of that. We didn't want to see you get hurt because you knew we were alive or knew our whereabouts."

"We wouldn't have said anything; you know that," Wufei stated.

Alex looked him in the eyes, "Trust me, he woulda found out. Actually, looking at what happened, I'm guessing he did find out we were alive some way; he knew exactly how to target you guys to get Night Star to call a reunion."

"Speaking of which, where IS this Night Star?" Trowa asked finally. He was getting a little tired of hearing "Night Star" this and "Night Star" that. He wanted to meet this mercenary face to face already.

Kyle glanced at a doorway and saw Damien speak to someone before going in as the other came out, "Well, if you wanna meet'r, there's the devil now.

The guys looked over as Night Star came over to them, four of the pilots in complete shock. Heero found his voice first, "Sai?"

LAVA and Sai are back with the pilots! Well, love it? Hate it? Review it! Till next time!