Once they got over the fact that Peruru was in fact Duo and a fairy of all things, they quickly caught up. Each of them had gotten a watch and a copy of the Moon Locket, which when opened would play the tune and show Crystal Tokyo to them.

Peruru was well aware that if they tried to bring the Crystal Millennium without the support of everyone, colonies included, that it would quickly fall. People had to believe in it for it to become real. The Senshi needed the support of the people to fight.

They had already made decent headway thanks to Quatre and his friends in the Maganac Corps who would follow his lead. Trowa could easily convince the circus troop he was a part of once they found out how peaceful it was. Catherine was very opposed to the war. Wu Fei could probably convince his clan to get behind it, provided they followed him completely.

Peruru already had the fairies behind him, and most of the Sweepers who knew Howard.

But Heero...he had no friends other than the pilots, and the thought of him promoting peace was laughable. Particularly with his Pink Stalker chasing him.

(Relena at this moment was unsuccessfully trying to track him with what was later termed by the pilots 'Heero-dar'. Once Peruru learned that she wouldn't stop stalking Heero, he gave the fairies an all clear to prank her. To this day she still wonders why she can never find her pink make up.)

Unfortunately for Peruru, he had the bad luck of mentioning off hand that Zechs and Noin were Uranus and Neptune. That made the other pilots make noises of disbelief.

"I'm serious! Zechs is Uranus' descendant and Noin is from Neptune!"

"How can you be sure of that?"

"Their keys weren't exactly hidden like the others. The four inner Senshi had the power to find the Silver Crystal, so they were hidden. But the Outer Senshi were the first line of defense, so they didn't have that power. Pluto and Saturn are still around," said Poupelin.

"Let me get this straight. The Lightning Count is on our side?" said Wu Fei incredulous.

"If you don't believe me, ask them if they have the other keys. Uranus had a sword made of celestial gold, and Neptune had a blue mirror which could reveal things hidden by plain sight. It was quite a nuisance to fairies as I recall," said Peruru.

"So look for a sword on the guy who pilots the Tall Geese, and a mirror in the hands of an On'na. Perfectly sensible things for them to have," snorted Wu Fei.

Peruru rolled his eyes, then hit Wu Fei with some fairy trickery. His hair went from night black to neon pink. Quatre tried and failed to hold back his laughter. Wu Fei looked in his reflection, yelped and within seconds had his sword in hand, chasing Peruru around the base.

"Oh come on Fei! It's not like I put that syrup in your shampoo or anything..."

"THAT WAS YOU? DAMN YOU MAXWELL!"

Peruru brought out his wings and stayed safely out of reach of the enraged Chinese pilot's sword. His brother and friends were no help, laughing helplessly.

Even Heero had a small smile on his face, though it was well hidden by his precious coffee cup. Each of the pilots had their own, with a different animal.

Quatre, despite their shock, had picked a cup with a golden desert fox on it. Wu Fei had, predictably, chosen one with an Asian dragon on it in blue. Trowa had a cup with tigers and lions. Heero had found one with a forest and a white wolf glaring at them. Even the fairies had their own cup.

Poupelin had a fairy glen on his, Banane had musical notes, while Orangeat picked one with fields full of food.

Luna and Artemis had matching cups, each in their color with a crescent moon in gold and silver.

Peruru had the most amusing one though. His had stars, a moon, clouds and a rabbit looking up. The handle was a crescent moon.

While they laughed themselves hoarse as Wu Fei unsuccessfully tried to strangle Peruru with his own hair (failed because said elf was far from reach midair) they heard a noise from the monitor.

It seemed the Mad Five were at it again, because Heero received his first mission since that disaster in Siberia. A new container full of Gundanium was being shipped, and he was ordered to destroy it.

Wu Fei got one as well, only his was to destroy a base manufacturing some new suits that required no pilots. Since such a thing could be more trouble than it was worth, they didn't question the order.

Unknown to the other pilots, Luna and Artemis had already sent the remaining Senshi a portable version of the Sailor V game, and it would only be a matter of time before they beat it.

Peruru noticed something odd about the pilots that they had yet to discover. The more they used their Senshi powers, the more they developed their own abilities.

Wu Fei seemed to be the only one who figured out what his power was. He could control ICE to freeze any projectile that was about to hit him or his allies. His Frost Barrier was impossible to get through, though it did tend to give anyone inside it a bad cold.

Trowa's ability to speak to animals without words was heightened each time he used his crystal. It wouldn't be long before he could speak to them directly. Quatre's Space Heart became slightly more sensitive, which was by far more worrying than Heero's new trick of hacking into a computer without touching it.

Duo honestly hadn't expected his fellow pilots to gain FAIRY powers when he gave them the crystals. Quatre he could understand, being half fairy on his mother's side, but the others were a bit of a shock.

Naturally they inherited from their ancestors, but some of the powers they were getting were definitely of the fairy variety. Privately he chalked that oddity to the fact that they were surrounded by different fairies almost constantly.

Trowa got a few powers from the fairies in charge of the circus he worked at. Unknown to the rather silent pilot, he had chosen a circus which was run by mostly half fairies and those who still believed in the old stories.

Wu Fei was often surrounded by the Asian fairies, which were quite rare. It seemed his presence boosted their powers in the same way it encouraged his to grow.

Quatre was the child of a space fairy and a human. Unlike his sisters, who were developed in test tubes, Quatre had begun developing his powers in the womb. It was why his Space Heart was so pronounced at an early age.

Heero...he was a bit of an enigma. Several types of the faerie hung around him for one reason only.

He tended to throw things at them when he woke up. They thought it quite amusing, since he realized pretty quick he would be wasting ammo if he tried to shoot them...not to mention it tended to break his cover. Aside from being Jupiter's descendant, the faeries had little on him.

Duo stayed inside the base most days, if he wasn't undercover. Usually he would go from inside the base to wherever he was sent to destroy, and come right back. It was because of this he found out that he didn't need to carry the Silver and Golden crystals for him to use their powers. Once he figured that out, he left them in the base at all times. The other pilots did the same, mostly so they wouldn't be asked awkward questions.

A full four months after the incident in Siberia, and something happened which would change things.

Duo was captured. His Gundam was destroyed before his very eyes. And the one who captured him was none other than someone he thought he could trust. Trowa, child of Mars.

But that shock was nothing compared to what was in store. Sure he could live with Trowa capturing him, (mostly because Trowa told him through the communicator on his wrist that he was undercover), but what happened to him because of Commander Une brought to light something he was not happy about.

Duo was chained and bound in iron. Luckily for him he was in a mortal body, otherwise it would have burned him horribly. But it was what Une said that bothered him.

He honestly expected her to demand the names and descriptions of the others. Hell, the names of his allies would have been expected. Or even where the boy who had been on the monitor in Siberia.

"Where is the Silver Crystal?" demanded Une.

Duo's head jerked up in shock. He noted that her troops seemed very confused as to what she was talking about. Clearly they were expecting something along the lines of the Gundams like he was.

"The what?" said Duo in confusion, buying time to see exactly how much she knew.

"Don't play dumb with me. Where is the Silver Crystal of the Moon Kingdom?" Une practically growled at him.

That had him staring at her open-mouthed in complete shock. Her soldiers were very confused.

"I don't have whatever it is you're talking about," Duo finally said. While it wasn't an out an out lie, it wasn't the full truth either. He may have been the guardian, but he didn't have it on him.

Une sneered at him coldly.

"Well I suppose we'll have to drag it out of you. I know you have it brat, and I will take it."

Now Duo knew something was wrong. Une shouldn't know anything about the Crystal. Or that he was the one who possessed it. He knew for a fact she wasn't of faerie blood, or she would have known he guarded the Golden Earth crystal as well.

So where did she learn of the crystal? He definitely didn't mention it outside the base, which was in another dimension. So she couldn't have picked it up that way.

As the days turned into a week, Duo was at his limit. He could sense the power of Mercury nearby, so he knew Wu Fei had been captured already. He had been beaten, burned, bruised and almost broken. But he maintained his silence about the crystals and the Gundams.

Une appeared again, scowling at the lack of progress. Duo's eyes were clouded over in pain, when he noticed something he never saw before. Behind Colonel Une was a shadow of pitch black. It didn't move like a normal shadow would, but rather like it was a physical being.

Sudden clarity racked his mind. He finally knew where Une had learned about the crystal. Like the battles of the original Senshi, their crystals had attracted a dark power from beyond the stars of their solar system. He had hoped that they would at least free the Senshi first before the darkness came back.

Duo looked at Une with clear eyes and for the first time since they began to torture him for information a clear head.

"Why do you seek this Silver Crystal of the Moon Kingdom?"

Une glared at him. Pilot 02 had so far refused to admit he knew the whereabouts of the crystal, or even that he knew what it was.

"To use the destructive forces it can summon and take out the rest of you colony ingrates."

Realization hit him hard. Une had no idea what the Crystal was at all. Or what the true power of it was. She had only been told that it could summon destruction on a massive scale.

Duo began to shake before laughing coldly. His eyes were no longer human, but that of his darkest side which he had come to call Shinigami. His amethyst orbs became blood red, and cold.

"That's all it is to you? A force of destruction and death?" he sneered.

Une was taken aback by the sudden change in him. The soldiers at the door shivered, and didn't know why. The shadow behind her stirred, not liking the sudden change.

"The crystal is a force for protecting life, not destroying it. All you care about is perverting it's power to suit your own ends, no matter what the price."

Une gained a cold smirk. Finally they were making progress. Her smirk practically took over her face as she asked "And what price would that be?"

"Death, blood and darkness. Using the crystal to kill would turn all the lights of life on Earth into darkness. Everything would die and you will have killed them all, even your precious Trieze."

Her smirk slid off when he said Trieze would die. How dare he threaten him! Clearly she would have to speed up his death sentence.

She stalked out in fury, fully intending to do that. Unknown to her, Shinigami was breaking free of his prison. The door hid him from the view of the soldiers outside, and his shackles fell off. The video in the room suffered from the release of his dark fairy magic, and he knew it would only be a matter of time before someone came in to fix it.

Shinigami's blood red eyes were filled with death, as he summoned his scythe. He hadn't been out in a while, not since the massacre of the church. His cold sneer cold send shivers of death down the spines of hardened murderers, for he was truly a god of death when unleashed.

The door opened, and a technician came in with a cross expression. He never knew what hit him as he fell to the floor dead. His body slit in two. The guards outside heard the thump, and looked in. their heads were on the floor within seconds.

Shinigami stepped out in full view of the cameras outside his cell, his scythe dripping with blood. By the time the alarm went off to signal his escape he had already freed Wu Fei. The Chinese pilot was in shock over his appearance, but when he handed over the watch he knew something was definitely wrong with Duo.

Shinigami looked at the only person who would be spared, and said "If you have to stop me, and the locket doesn't work, knock me out. When you do open the door to the base immediately and tell them that I snapped."

Wu Fei silently followed the other pilot, and watched in both shock and horror as Shinigami systematically killed anyone who came across them.

Granted, most of them were soldiers and several had taken part in torturing them, but still.

When they reached the hanger, it was full of Oz soldiers. And there, standing in the middle with a mixture of horror and anger was Une herself.

It was over in less than five minutes. The bodies of over fifty soldiers were strewn about, and it would take weeks to figure out which part went to each body. Une lay gasping in horror as Shinigami approached her, fully intent on killing her slowly.

Wu Fei had had enough, and did as Shinigami had told him to. Without warning he came behind him and knocked him out. Duo slumped, and he coolly placed the other pilot across his shoulders. Une stared in shock, and would remember the words Wu Fei used to get Duo away for the rest of her life.

"In the name of the Senshi, open the base!"

Before she could react, they were gone, and she alone survived the wrath of the Death God himself.

Poupelin and Luna were waiting, concerned. Heero jumped up when he saw Duo out cold, and helped Wu Fei move the disguised fairy to what they pilots simply called the Chamber. Placing him inside the healing crystals, the warm glow promptly turned midnight black upon touching Duo.

Poupelin was grim, and it spoke volumes. Heero didn't need to ask what had happened, because he fully planned to rescue both of them once he had the right tools. He was a day late it seemed.

Within minutes of their abrupt arrival, the fairies gathered.

"We need the crystals, and we need them now," said Orangeat.

In less than an hour, Quatre and Trowa arrived. Trowa assisted the blond's escape, and was currently being covered by the space fairies while they tried to save Duo's sanity.

Gathering in a circle, they each took a point. The crystals surrounding Duo slowly began to lighten, but it was not enough. Poupelin cursed loudly. What they needed now wasn't the four Inner Senshi, but the Outer Senshi as well. Saturn was about to arrive, freed from her seal finally, while Pluto's crystal was being channeled through the keys to them. But they had no way of contacting Neptune and Uranus.

A full four hours of sending energy to the healing crystals, and the outlook was bleak.

Heero was the only one who refused to leave the Chamber, keeping up a steady stream of energy to Duo.

Wu Fei was getting coffee when he heard someone come down the stairs. Curious, he looked up and found...a woman and man looking very confused.

At the man's side was a golden sword with odd crystals along the blade. The woman held a sea blue mirror in her hands, as well as an old gaming device.

The second her eyes lay on Wu Fei she looked furious!

"YOU!"

The man looked at her startled.

"Do I know you?" asked Wu Fei, taking a drink. Her voice sounded vaguely familiar.

She glared at him angrily.

"You killed my students with a bomb and then blew up their new suits with our own space cannon," she ground out.

Quatre (fortunately?) came to them after hearing raised voices, and saw the two newcomers. He knew they weren't fairies, because they tended to just pop in and out. They never used the stairs. Seeing the two items on them, he made an educated guess as to who they were.

"I take it you two are Uranus and Neptune?"

Seeing their confusion, he pointed to the items.

"These? We got these as family heirlooms," said the man.

"Welcome to the Senshi base. There's fresh coffee in the kitchen," said Artemis.

The woman really looked surprised, then cleaned out her ears.

"I could have sworn I heard a cat talk."

"We can, and I hope you don't have a problem with it," said Luna from behind.

"Can this day get any weirder," asked the man.

"What are your names?" asked Quatre. Wu Fei had gone to inform Trowa and Heero as to the new arrivals.

"Zechs Marquise and Noin," said the man.

Quatre, who had been taking a drink of soda, choked.

"The Lightning Count and Noin?" he said when he could talk again. Zechs appeared very amused at his reaction.

Heero came in to get a cup of coffee, and heard Quatre's disbelief. He pocked his head out to see why, and nodded. The guy definitely fit J's description of the Lightning Count.

Zechs, upon seeing Heero, raised an eyebrow. Or they thought he did. He still had his mask on.

Luna jumped on Quatre's shoulder and said calmly, "It's rude to talk to people without looking them in the eye."

Noin held back a laugh as she saw her friend scowl. He reluctantly took off his mask. Heero took one look at him and had to ask, "You aren't related to a girl named Relena are you?"

Zechs nodded, and had a confused look when Heero cursed for five minutes. His scowl took over his face.

Wu Fei snickered, and decided to take pity on the Lightning Count.

"Your sister is stalking him quite effectively," he informed him.

"Her obsession with the color pink is very disturbing. Every time I try to hide in a school, within a week she shows up. She has absolutely no thought of ruining my cover," growled Heero.

Zechs snickered, though he did find that information a bit disturbing.

Poupelin saw the new arrivals, and lead them to the room where the A/V was set up. Saturn was currently crashing on the couch after her long trip to the base.