Cynthia Joy Finnegan – can I call you Cyn for short? – thanks for the review, I figured now would be a good time, thinking of what I have planned anyway, but we'll see if they play along

- thank you and I hope you like it.

Chapter 15:

Alarms went off and Weir stood over the control. "Who is it?" she asked the woman at the panel.

"SGC ma'am," the woman said.

"Lower the shield," Weir said a minute later Jack O'Neill walked through with three boys behind him. One looked Chinese and very upset. The taller of the three had bangs covering one side of his face, he was also tall and slender. The last one had blond hair and gave off a happy smile. Weir looked confused for a moment. Jack look off his sunglasses as the blond was then toppled over by a blur.

That one movement explained everything. A moment later Heero appeared on the steps, and almost at once the Chinese pulled a sword on Heero as the other held a gun to him. The tallest boy watched them calmly and then looked up to Weir.

"We turned the Daedalus around to gather these boy's Gundams, said they were going to help, how did they know about it?" Jack asked and looked to the braided boy who was chatting up the blonde's ears. Jack reached down and grabbed the braid and tugged it for a moment. "Hey, if this is your fault," the general was asking.

"Ah, calm your guns old man, its just a couple of messages, besides, you know about our Gundams and you're still alive."

"Which is something I have to berate you for Maxwell." The Chinese boy called.

"Duo," Duo replied.

"What?" the Chinese asked.

"My name, is Duo—DOOuuooo," he sounded out.

"Now is not the time to act foolish Maxwell," the other yelled, the braided boy rolled his eyes at him. The Chinese boy stomped over, clearly forgotten about Heero. Duo stood quickly and moved out of the way of the sword. "What is one of the rules of the mission Maxwell?"

Duo held up his hands in defeat. "Always take a nap before you travel cross galaxies?" the braided boy asked with a grin. The blond started laughing still sitting on the floor, the tallest one watched the two fight with their words, Heero just watched with him.

"That's enough!" bellowed Jack in his most fatherly voice. It stopped them and looked at him for a moment; the blond even stopped laughing and hiccupped a couple of times from his abrupt stop. "Doctor Weir I leave them in your hands, the Daedalus should be here in two weeks."

"I thought it took eighteen days," she started.

"Them," he said and turned to the gate. "If you don't mind?"

The gate was dialed back to Stargate Command and Jack went through. As soon as he was gone, the Chinese boy glared at Duo.

"Well an introduction is in order I believe?" she said and somewhere along the way John and the team came by.

"Duo Maxwell, oh-two, Deathscythe," he said and grinned wide. Giving the outline of what the others were to follow.

"Quatre Raberba Winner, oh-four, Sandrock," the blond said standing up, catching the hint.

"Heero Yuy, oh-one, Wing Zero," Heero said, though it wasn't needed.

"Trowa Barton, oh-three, Heavyarms," said the tallest one very softly.

The Chinese boy folded his arms, "Wufei Chang, oh-five, Nataku," he said once Quatre elbowed him some. "We shouldn't be telling them this."

"Lighten up Fei," Duo said.

"You ever call me that again and I'll kill you," Wufei growled.

"Okay Fei-fei," Duo grinned wide as the Chinese boy growled at him and turned away. Weir just watched carefully as they seemed to settle into one another, like a long lost family. Trowa and Heero remained quiet while Duo and Wufei argued, and Quatre chuckled softly at them. But his attention wasn't only on his friends squabble, but on the base and its people. The blond pulled away from the others, Trowa lifted his head some and then relaxed as the blond stopped and looked up at Weir.

"I know this is a bit sudden, and I am sorry for the inconvenience that this may have caused," he said softly, Weir was surprised by his tone as she walked down to them. "I, we, mainly myself, have been worried about Heero and Duo, and with the loosing war, Duo had said something about helping here so that they would return. We have come to help in your war so that maybe you could help in ours," he said.

Weir looked back to the other boys, and Duo who seemed to brighten when the others arrived.

"We will accept the help and offer any assistance we can, but we don't have mobile suits, the Gundams are the only ones."

"Oh speaking of, we also brought some spare parts and more ammo. Trowa looked at him and then turned to the side and folded his arms.

"Oh good lord!" called Carson as he finally arrived. "There are three more of em?"

"Yep! You can examine Fei-fei first! He loves needles!" Duo called out and at the way he dragged the word love, Weir had a feeling he really didn't, the proof to that was the resounding crack as Wufei punched Duo. Duo turned back to Wufei and grinned wickedly at him. Wufei took a step back.

"No, Duo, down…" Wufei started and took another step back. Duo lunged, but stopped dead when two hands held onto the back of his shirt. Trowa's and Heero's. Quatre smiled fondly at them and looked at Weir.

"We'll be okay," he said to her. "We're whole again." He walked back to the others and poked at Duo for a moment. The statement had left Weir a little confused, until she looked at them. They seemed happy together, a family, and even if they squabble, and fight, she had a feeling that they would protect each other in a fight against an enemy. The bickering between Duo and Wufei also seemed more playful then truly angry and hateful.

She had a feeling the boys would grow on the Atlantis people very quickly.

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She sighed some as she looked at the reports from the last battle with the Wraith Hive ships, it had still been Duo and Heero up in space, but the other three had joined in the control room with the rest of the team. She remembered when she said that the boys would grow on them, she hadn't thought it would have been this fast. Each boy had his own room and his own jacket now, though the Gundam patch was still missing for they didn't know what their Gundams looked like. They had been accepted very quickly. These children, children… not even men yet, were in a war of their own, and here. Their hearts she couldn't even begin to think of how big they were.

John placed a hand on her shoulder as she had been biting her nail. In this battle the Wraith had become a bit more aggressive. Deathscythe's Vulcan guns have stopped working and his left leg was slightly damaged do to a suicide dart. Wing's left thruster was also damaged from a dart, but they were still fighting. She could hear Duo's string of curses and Heero's small grunts.

Quatre took a head set from someone, the woman was about to protest but stopped.

"Calm down, you are fighting as if you were fighting more OZ mobile suits, they aren't that fast, you are letting them crash into you, you are better then this," he said. There was silence for a moment. "They are not mobile suits, take breaths."

Weir looked at the blond boy and looked to John. "They're good kids," he said to her. Weir looked at them. That's what they were. Kids, they shouldn't be doing this.