Co-Captain
Star Trek reboot/Gundam Wing Mobile Suit, Jim&Duo, they both survived Tarsus IV
When you get Jim drunk, he talks about Tarsus IV, Bones finds. He talks about starving, and sometimes the soldiers; but most of all, he talks about the rats. Rats, Bones finds out, are what Jim calls the kids younger then his own age of the time, who'd survived by stealing, food going hand to mouth with no in between.
The best thief, Jim claims, didn't know his own name. Jim gave him a name, because Jim was alone without the other boy, and Jim didn't want to be called Jim Kirk here, son of a dead hero; so they called themselves 'Solo' and 'Duo'; one and two.
Bones thinks that this Duo is dead, because Jim calls him his best friend, Death, and jokes about it. It's sad and sickening to hear it, but Bones won't ask Jim not to tell, he figures - he needs to know as much about Jimmy as he can.
So when Bones and Spock and Jimmy all go down to Sanc Kingdom, the only place which takes the term 'pacifist' to a whole different level - they refuse to fight, no matter the cause. They are well known for that trait. It must be said that if Jim gets the shock of his life, it is doubly so for Bones.
Duo lounges to one side of Princess Relena Peacecraft, a body guard. His eyes lock onto Jim as he's never seen anyone worth looking at before, and the grin on his face is downright manic.
Once the meet and greet is done, finished off by a meal and a overnight bed, Duo descends upon Jim, waltzing into the captains quarters as if he belongs there, and he stays the whole night - Bones knows that because he stayed awake, waiting and listening for Duo to come out so Bones could nab him and get some answers.
Jim comes out crowing with laughter, Duo wrapped over his shoulders, and Jim hanging onto Duo as if he's the only solid thing. Jim tells Spock to report that while the Sanc Kingdom will accept fleeing refugees, and provide support for transporting civilians -women and children; and even donate money for getting those who are innocent back on their feet, they simply will not produce weapons or soldiers or support any there of.
That does not explain Duo, Bones thinks but dares not accuse in saying. Duo is clearly carrying a ancient weapon - a gun, and more knives and metal bits then is clearly necessary - more then enough to set the metal detectors off - but those detectors... they don't go off.
Duo follows Jim around, even when he's the one supposed to be giving a tour - another boy, not a soldier but with the look, all but takes over Duo's duty. Bones doesn't miss that the names; Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei - are numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 respectively. The boys are even called by their numbers, once or twice, when the palace guards (clearly not soldiers, these) slip up when addressing them.
Bones half expects that either Jim or Duo will childishly protest that Jim has to leave- but no, neither says a word, until it's time to beam up, and Jim says "four" instead of "three".
As Duo explains when Princess Relena Peacecraft hales the Enterprise for a explanation.
"I'm where I belong, Princess - my stay was never going to be forever, tell the others that this time...don't follow me?" Duo smiles when he says that, but the look in his eyes is serious.
Spock is no fool, he pulls up a file on Duo - and shares everything with Bones when he asks. Despite that mile long list of crimes and pardons and treason and imprisonment and outright torture and pardons for all that Duo has done, it's a history with a weight to it. It haunts Bones in his sleep, that Duo calls himself Death, the god - and death certainly follows, but if Duo is Death the other four of the bodyguards of the Princess of Sanc are equally bigger then belief could hold without having set eyes on the team.
Duo is a pilot, one of the last war-pilots of space before Star Fleet became a power to be reckoned with; behind Star Fleet is the Sanc Kingdom, a idea planted on Earth - and behind the Sanc Kingdom and its impossible stance, are the last (supposedly, lost) pilots.
For all that, not even Bones can deny that it isn't good for Duo - the Enterprise - and Jim, Jim doesn't seem so smothered with the weight of command, for all that it's not written down, no one can deny that Jim considers Duo anything less then his co-Captain. They're a lot like twins, and if Spock ever has his hands full with them - he never protests.
