Before anyone asks, this is a Gundam Wing/KHR cross. Wait till you find out who Duo actually is. You will laugh.

Duo Maxwell was nothing more than a street rat slated to be a Gundam Pilot before he was even fifteen. He knew this, had accepted he might very well die for a cause that most would balk at doing when they were twice his age.

But if there was one thing Duo had in spades, it was the resolve to follow through on his convictions with his dying will.

And no, he didn't care how often he got that weird look from people when they heard him use such an unusual phrase.

The only ones who didn't give him an odd look for it, weirdly enough, generally had strong ties to the criminal underground.

To be fair, the only "people" and he used the term loosely considering they were all small as hell and very weird, who never even batted an eye at his declaration of using his dying will were all "toddlers" with brightly colored pacifiers and weird pets. They couldn't get involved with the mess that the Gundams were sure to create officially, but since one of the pilots was in fact related to one of them, they could at least train the pilots so they had a greater chance of survival.

Honestly, by the end of it Duo was more scared of that yellow pacifier brat with the damn lizard than he was of any Alliance or Oz forces!

They never used names, but he always found their code names really weird.

Yellow was Sun, Red was Storm, Green was Lightning, Blue was Rain, and Violet was Cloud. They each rotated who they would train and would appear sporadically, but they were terrifyingly effective at it.

Duo liked Cloud, Storm and Rain the best, and was more leery of Sun. Lightning was just an annoying brat who despaired of him ever learning the finer points of hacking anything, though he admitted Duo made a very effective mechanic.

At least Duo would see Spanner again. The perpetual member of the Lollipop Guild (which usually had said blond throwing a wrench at him, because he wasn't a munchkin) was awesome and the two of them could debate design specs for hours. Hell, Spanner was the one who got him his own scythe to play with!

He still didn't know where Spanner found that creepy thing, just that it was very sharp and could disappear when he wanted it to. But it was soooo much fun to play with. The old geezer generally bitched when he brought it out.

Duo grinned. And now he got to play with the thing for real.

But first...he had to get to earth.

Spanner looked at Deathscythe with a mixture of pity and amusement.

Pity, because that other pilot had practically gutted the other Gundam for the parts he needed...and amusement because Duo should have seen this coming. That Heero kid was terrifyingly efficient and had even threatened to shoot Spanner if he had tried to stop him.

He seemed surprised when the other teen merely brought him some food before continuing on his own projects while watching the entire thing with open amusement. It wasn't his problem if one of the other Gundam pilots decided to be an ass.

"Spanner..." growled Duo. "Why the hell didn't you stop him?"

"He said he'd shoot me if I did. Besides, he's a fellow Gundam pilot. It's not like he's going to talk," said Spanner without looking up.

He found himself in a headlock from the slightly shorter teen. His long brown hair was swinging back and forth.

"I'm going to get you for that," he said flatly.

"I'll help repair Deathscythe."

"And suddenly I'm not in the mood to spike your damn lollipops," said Duo with false cheer. Spanner hugged the bag closer to him.

"You leave them alone. They haven't done anything to you!"

Duo's grin was evil. Spanner shuddered.

"I'll help you hack into his computer and get it locked onto porn sites as payback. Fair?"

Duo's evil grin widened.

"Deal," said Duo. Heero was going to get it for messing with his aibou.

Later that night...

Howard only had to hear the evil cackling of Duo and the dark chuckling of Spanner, before deciding he didn't want to know. Anything involving those two got weird in a hurry, especially when Spanner was sleep deprived and Duo was bored.

"Eh? So you want to visit Namimori and meet Shōichi?" asked Duo once he had gotten his revenge on that damn Heero for dismantling Deathscythe. It was almost fully repaired, but still.

(Best of all he had a full recording of Heero's reaction to finding out his precious laptop had been hacked and he was only allowed to visit the raunchiest porn sites available, some of which catered to gay men with really weird fetishes.)

"Yeah. I've been wanting to meet him since I ran into him on a chat site, but no one has enough time to drive me there," said Spanner, his usual lollipop in his mouth. The guy had a fetish for the damn things.

Duo scratched his head.

"We're pretty close to that city, right?"

"There's a beach not ten miles from the city, and we're less than twenty from it," said Spanner. Howard's ship wouldn't stay in one place while Deathscythe was on it.

"Howard's almost finished with the repairs, so we have a day or two to kill. I'll drive you to town and pick up a few things. I heard from Storm that there's a decent black market I can hit for supplies."

He also got a warning to avoid someone called "Hibari" if he ever went to that area, but what were the odds he'd run into the guy?

Spanner perked up, and went to ask Howard for a day off. Within an hour the two had borrowed a boat and went to a harbor. Duo hotwired the first car he could get his hands on and they were off.

"Duo?"

"Yeah?"

"I am never letting you drive me anywhere unless it's time critical again."

"Why?" asked Duo innocently.

"You are insane," said Spanner. He was on all fours trying to recover from Duo's insane driving to the town. They didn't wreck the car, thank god, but Duo didn't dip under ninety the entire drive until they reached town!

Duo whistled innocently. Spanner wasn't fooled for a minute.

"Anyway, I reversed hacked his IP address, so I have a general idea of where he lives. Why don't you go visit the town or something?" said Spanner.

"You're buying dinner. I'm thinking sushi," said Duo.

"Only if you don't go above sixty on the way back," Spanner said flatly.

"Aw, you're no fun at all," whined Duo grinning evilly. You could practically see his devil horns.

"You are such an ass," said Spanner.

Duo grinned and waved him off.

Spanner could hack his phone to find him if he wanted.

Several hours later...

The black market in Namimori was surprisingly well stocked. He was able to upgrade his music collection and get some really neat toys to play with later.

And then he ran into someone who looked way too much like Storm to be a coincidence.

He stared for five seconds, before deliberately walking away. He only got about five feet before the teen almost caved his head in with a tonfa of all things.

"Shit!"

"Carnivore. What are you doing in my territory?" he growled.

"Easy! I'm only visiting!" said Duo quickly. He narrowed his purple eyes at the kid. "Your name wouldn't happen to be Hibari by any chance, would it?"

The teen smirked at him, and brought out a second tonfa.

"Damn. Storm never mentioned you were a shorter haired, taller version of him!"

Hibari stilled, before he really glare at Duo.

"Do. Not. Compare. Me. To. The. Carnivore."

With each word he struck at Duo, who narrowly avoided the hits.

"Watch it asshole!"

"For the crime of annoying me and mentioning him, I will bite you to death."

"Bring it on jackass! I'm the god of death and I ain't afraid of your skinny ass!" said Duo loudly.

Hibari smirked. He had been so bored lately and now an interesting opponent had showed up.

Somehow Duo had a bad feeling this was going to suck.

Two hours later...

"What the hell happened to you?" asked Spanner baffled.

Duo looked like he had gotten into a fight with a large cat or something. He was bruised all over and had scratches on top of scratches.

He glared at a teen who looked rather pleased with himself, but was in slightly better condition compared to Duo.

"This asshole thought it was funny to try and cave my damn head in with those stupid batons of his in the middle of the damn street!" he said hooking a thumb at an amused Hibari.

"They're tonfa, not batons you idiot," snarked Hibari.

"So how did your little drop in visit with your chat friend go?" asked Duo crossly.

Spanner leaned back so Duo could look past him to see a red head with glasses.

"Uh, hi. I'm Shōichi Irie."

"Duo Maxwell. I run, I hide, but I never tell a lie."

Spanner looked past Duo at the smug teen beside him.

"Tch. Hibari Kyouya."

Shōichi stiffened.

"As in the demon prefect Hibari?!" he said in horror.

"Demon prefect?" repeated Duo.

"He's a known terror of Namimori! He's practically taken control of all the delinquents in town and his favorite catch phrase is that he'll bite you to death!" said Shōichi.

He didn't even attend Hibari's school and he still knew of the boy's reputation.

Duo gave Hibari the stink eye.

"No wonder you were such a pain in the ass to fight," he said sourly. If he had a bunch of delinquents under his thumb then of course he'd be familiar with most of Duo's dirty tricks. Hibari looked positively smug at that declaration.

"Wao. You were the most entertainment I've had in months," said Hibari.

Duo waved him off.

"Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up. First Mr. Perfect Soldier thinks it's funny to try and wreck my ride, and now I have to deal with some demon brat sent to annoy me on my day off," said Duo sourly.

Spanner snickered.

Hibari gave him an odd look.

"Are you aware 'Storm' has designated Namimori as a safe area for you and the other four in the event you need a place to hide?"

Duo blinked.

"He what?"

"Alliance has no jurisdiction here. Another group has control of the area and made it clear that they weren't welcome. And if they did try to take it over, I'd bite them to death."

"Huh. So how are you related to that midget anyway?"

Hibari had a sour look on his face.

"He's my uncle," he replied. As if he hated being reminded of his relation to the man.

Probably because he couldn't beat him, Duo thought vindictively.

"Meh, at least you have family," said Duo.

He perked up when the waiter came up with their order.

The guy seemed nice, but there was a spacey look to him. And there was something about him that screamed under the right circumstances he could become very, very dangerous to piss off.

"Two purple and blue specials~!" he said cheerfully.

"Thanks man! I was craving some proper sushi all week!" said Duo cheerfully.

There was a brief moment as the two sized each other up. Mostly because they had almost identical masks.

"Ahaha, no problem. Our sushi is the best in town!"

It was really good food, and Duo was shameless in enjoying it. And the tea was even better, though Hibari stole most of the purple type.

He seemed to have taken an open interest in Duo for some reason.

"Hey Duo...think Howard would mind if we spent the night here?" asked Spanner.

"Eh?"

"Well your ride isn't going to be fixed until morning... and it'll only take a few hours to get back," said Spanner.

"Why not?" said Duo cheerfully. There was something so nostalgic about this town.

Almost like a forgotten memory.

"Uh, I don't think I have room for two of you. Spanner, maybe..." said Shōichi nervously.

"Tch. The carnivore can stay at my house," said Hibari.

Duo turned to stare at him.

"What?"

"That damn carnivore warned me about the others, but didn't give me enough details. So I'm going to wring them out of you while I have the chance before they show up," said Hibari flatly.

"Oh. That sounds fair."

"Besides, you're the first person in six months who could keep up with me," he continued.

"Crap. I'm going to get my ass kicked again, aren't I?"

Hibari just radiated smugness, which was a definite yes on that subject.

At least he wouldn't be bored.

Howard looked at the two teenagers, but mostly at Duo.

"What the hell happened to you?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

"He played with you again, didn't he?" asked Spanner amused. Duo growled at him.

Hibari was insane, but damn if he wasn't a lot of fun to spar with! Plus there was this weird warmth in his chest when Hibari declared him a "worthy carnivore", as if he had passed some sort of test.

On the plus side, since Hibari was already involved in this he could almost freely talk about what was going on with the older teen. Nothing specific, but enough to keep him in the loop.

Hibari didn't like surprises, from what he could tell.

Duo immediately headed to a free cot and crashed.

Howard looked at Spanner. The teen grinned and popped in another of his favorite treats.

"He found a demon to play with. Storm's nephew likes to play rough with interesting people who can actually fight back," said Spanner.

"I'm not going to ask," said Howard. "Anyway if you want to do any upgrades to Deathscythe, you got a few hours before it's finished."

Spanner whistled cheerfully as he went to check on the Gundam. He was free to play with them so long as they could still function properly.

He wondered when Heero would notice the 'upgrade' he gave Wing before he left.

In Korea...

Heero twitched. There was a new program that shouldn't be there in his precious Gundam. And it's code looked very familiar...it was almost identical to the damn virus that had infected his laptop last week that took him days to get rid of.

If he ever found out who tampered with his machines he was going to shoot them.