Shinseiki Gundam W

(New Century Gundam W)

Aria stood in her room, curled up in a ball, on her bed. Every time she closed her eyes, the explosion, the suits, and his face would appear in her mind. She couldn’t sleep. All she could do was stay up.

“ I will get revenge… I am the Angel of Death… Tenshii no Death. They will pay, so will he.” Aria said to her self, as her eyes finally closed to sleep.

Typing could be heard in a dark room, with only a computer screen as its light. He scanned the pages that were popping up on his screen.

“ I must find out what that was…” He said to himself. Someone knocked on his door. “ Enter..” Hilde stepped in his room.

“ How long are you going to be on that computer this time? You have to take out the trash.” Hilde said in a stern voice.

“ Hn. I’ll take it out, when I find out who and why was that Gundam here.” He said in a monotone voice. Hilde sighed.

“ Christopher, I don’t know what to do with you anymore. You’re pulling your self away from this family so much. Why, Christopher? Why?”

“ I don’t know, why mom.”

“ Well, until you find an answer, take out this garbage and now!” Christopher got up from his chair and brushed pass his mother without a glance. “ Why are you like this Christopher?”

Christopher noticed Duo undoing his tie from his Preventor uniform, as he stepped through the door. He heard about Aria’s unfortunate break down, and he was now second thinking about sending his son, Christopher, to pilot. What would war do to him? Duo waved at Christopher just faintly smiled.

“ Hello, Chris. So what did you do today?” Duo asked, as he finally got his tie off. Christopher looked at his dad.

“ Searching the Preventor database to know why a gundam was in space.” Christopher said in a slightly monotone voice.

“ Oh, well… I wondering if you approve of me going to space, and fighting with Deathscythe?” Duo said, looking at his son. He wanted to know what he thought. He knew his answer would probably be the same as Aria, but he just needed the comfort of his opinion.

“ I would think this, that would be the most illogical decision to make. Your response time sucks, and you want to pilot a Gundam. I would pick someone who at least has the capabilities of piloting.” Christopher said. Duo just grinned.

“ I knew you’d say that.”

“ Well, I am your son after all. So I was wondering if I could pilot Deathscythe?”

“ Chris, you don’t even know how too. You would just be risking your life.”

“ And not the other 4?!” Christopher said, in a much more higher tone. He rarely yelled. Duo looked at him, his son wanted to pilot, but couldn’t let him take the chance.

“ I know. But 1 of them already went out to space, and unfortunately… emotionally broke down. I don’t want that to happen.” Duo said with a slight feel of remorse for Aria.

“ Dad, I have no feeling for war. Feeling isn’t needed on the battlefield. If that solider broke down it was because of their own weak mind.”

“ Chris! That weak minded solider was the vice-foreign minister’s daughter.” Christopher just looked at his father blankly. She was in space? She was fighting? Impossible.

Aria woke up the next morning. She opened her door and walked downstairs to the breakfast table. She had her smile back, and unfortunately was happier than ever. When she stepped into the breakfast room, her parents and her aunt and uncle both looked at her, stopping what they were doing.

“ I’m fine everyone. Just fine! Now what is for breakfast, I’m starved! I hope you guys left me at least a spoonful. I’m a growing girl!” Aria said, as she sat down. The 4 just looked at her, now confused.

“ Aria… are… you…. Alright?” Relena asked. Aria nodded, and took a banana from the fruit bowl.

“ Yeah, I’m fine! What did you expect me to do? Lock my self up in my room and bawl for the rest of my life. Ha!”

“ It’s good to here your back to your old self again, Aria.” Milliardo said, with a smile. He took another sip from his tea. Noin smiled.

“ So that means, you are forgetting to pilot Wing Angel?” Heero said, looking at the paper. Everyone just went silent, and stared at the two.

“ No father. I won’t. I’m piloting Wing Angel for revenge… sweet and deadly revenge.” Aria said, with a strong deadly voice. It was like every time the name Wing Angel or Gundam popped up, that mans face would appear in her mind… and trigger the beast in her. She didn’t like it, but it was now free from her soul.

“ What?” Heero asked blankly, now putting the paper on the table, and eyeing her.

“ I said I’m piloting. Simple as that.” Both of their prussian blue eyes were eyeing each other dangerously. There was never so much tension between them. They were always so happy. The perfect union of Father and Daughter. Now in a matter of 2 days, they were both arguing. One trying to outwit the other in arguments. Relena stood up from her chair. She had to stop this before it got any worst.

“ Stop it this instant!” Relena yelled. They both looked at Relena. “ What happened to the love between you two? You both had such a great chemistry… now you want to kill each other! Heero, if Aria wants to pilot the Wing Angel, then let her. You know you are to old, and your response time in the last test showed you have dropped at least 10%. And that is not good, considering how much technology has advanced over the past 25 years.” Heero looked at Relena then at Aria. He sighed. It was true, in the last test he did drop 10%, and that was not good considering the last statistics they received from Preventor hq in the colonies.

“ Aria… I accept your decision. It’s I don’t want you to get hurt out there.” Heero said, looking at Aria. Aria smiled, walked over to her father, and hugged him. He returned the hug as he stroked her hair. “ You are my only daughter, and I just don’t want you to die out there. You still have a future to live, as how someone show me a long time ago.”

“ I know, father.” Aria kissed him on the check. Relena and Noin smiled, while Milliardo looked stunned, this was the first time he ever saw Heero act like this. Well he rarely saw him too. (AN: Man, doesn’t anyone ever get over grudges??)

David picked up his flute and began playing it to the sounds of the birds. He always loved playing to the birds, so they could reply back. His little sister ran up to him and began pulling on his shirt. She was a cute 4 year old, who looked so much like her mother (AN: Except for the eyebrows…. :: shivers ::). David looked down at his sister and smiled.

“ What is it, Katrina?” David said with a sweet innocent voice. Just like his father, he was purely innocent.

“ Can you pwlease play me Marry Had a Little Lamb to the birds? I like how the birdies reply.” Katrina said, with a sweet smile on her face. David kneeled down and looked at her, he smiled. She was so innocent and cute.

“ Only if you give me a big hug… you know how much your big brother loves hugs!” Katrina giggled, and gave him a hug. He then stood up and began playing the song she requested. She began to hum the song to herself, as the birds began to sing along. It was like he could connect with everyone. Quatre walked inside smiling. Quatre was so proud of his son, and it was a shame that he would experience the same fate as he did. Katrina noticed their father walking in the room. She walked up to him and smiled. He picked her up and gave her a kiss on the cheeks before putting her down. She blew a little kiss back and ran out the room. David stopped playing and turned around to notice his father in front of him. He began to take his flute apart and putting the pieces back in the case (AN: HA! Bet’cha you didn’t know a flute was broken into parts now did ya! That’s what you get for not taking up band!). He looked at his father and sighed.

“ I know father. But you can’t do it.”

“ How did you know?” Quatre asked.

“ How else, John tells and knows all.” Quatre smiled. It always had to be John. John always had a mouth like Duo.

“ That is why I’m here. I’ve realized that I can’t pilot anymore, and now that your mother and I are busy going to meetings about the satellites, I need you to take my place.” David smiled at his father. He felt somewhat over joy that he was finally going to pilot his father’s gundam.

“ Father, I’m glad that I’m going to pilot your gundam. This is such a great honor!” Quatre looked at him confusingly. “ Sorry.”

“ That’s okay.”

“ Told ya, David-dude! Your ol’ pops gave you the big word, did he?” John said on the vid-phone. David just smiled.

“ Yep. I told him you tell and know all.” David said with a smirk.

“ You sure enough got that right. The Great John! He knows and tells all! Hey wait, maybe I should make money off of that instead of being a clown. What do ya think?”

“ I think you are long due for a vacation and some action.”

“ You got that right also! I can’t wait to pilot the Heaveyarms.”

“ And I can’t wait to pilot the Sandrock.”

“ Did you hear? The foreign minister’s daughter is a Gundam pilot now too!”

“ What?! I thought that whole family was pacifist!”

“ Me too, but her having those Yuy genes, you never know.”

Aria looked upon the broaden reaches of space in the shuttle she was taking to one of the colonies. Her parents thought that since she was a Gundam pilot, she rather just live in the colonies. Space was so beautiful, so vast upon the endless reaches.

“ So beautiful…” Aria said to herself. Something on her vid-phone beeped. She looked down and answered it. A young face boy’s face with emerald green eyes, and straight short brown hair appeared. He grinned.

“ Heyo! You must be… hold on…. let me see here…. The vice foreign minister’s daughter Aria Darlian Peacecraft-Yuy! Am I right?” He said cheerfully.

“ Yeah… and who are you?”

“ Oh! Sorry, my name is…. tada! John ‘ who knows all and tells all ’ Barton or Bloom. Which ever. Anyway, I just wanted to meet you in person, ‘cause I don’t want to lead you to the colonies without meeting just one of us… if you know what I mean.”

“ Yeah…” Aria was totally confused by this one.

“ Damn! Now I’m confusing you aren’t I? Hold on, okay! If you want to meet David and Me, meet us at the L2 colony. Find a circus tent. We’ll explain much more… till then, ciao!” His image disappeared. Aria looked blankly at the screen for a while.

“ If these are my co-pilots, then this is going to be a hellish trip.”

Aria followed John’s instructions all right, and she saw the two. They waved at her, and she waved back. They both ran to her.

“ Hey, there! You’ve already met me… but you haven’t me this rich kid over here yet have you?”

“ Uh… no.”

“ Good then! He is the heir to the Winner fortune and satellites. Isn’t that so cool! Anyway, his name is David Rabera Winner.”

“ May I speak for my self?” David said.

“ Oh my bad, sure, sure!”

“ I would think that meeting at my father’s mansion would be much more appropriate. More privacy. Plus a foreign minister’s daughter shouldn’t be caught in the mere public like this.” Aria and John nodded.

At the mansion, David led them to his music room. He closed the doors and sat on one of the chairs. Aria was the first to speak.

“ So what made you pilot?” Aria asked. David scratched his head, and John just grinned.

“ My dad just gave it to me.” John said.

“ My father and me had a long conservation before he gave it to me.” David said. Aria sighed. Why did the others have such an easier time getting approval with their parents, and it wasn’t with her parents? It just wasn’t fair.

“ So how did you guys meet?”

“ Oh we’ve known each other since we were born. Our dads were really close. So we kinda grew up together in a way. Like brothers. “ John said.

“ Yeah. Except sometimes I would have to travel back and forth with my parents to satellites and John over there would have to travel with his dad all over the colonies and the world. But we kept in touch.” David said. Aria wished she had friendships like that, but she didn’t really have any friends either. But she did remember this one boy. She and him made a promise that they both promised they surely keep. Aria began to remember that time.

“ Aria, don’t cry… we’ll meet again someday. I promise.” A young boy said, about 8 or 10. A young Aria cried in his arms, she didn’t want to leave him. He was nice, caring, sweet, and wonderful. She just couldn’t leave him.

“ Promise.” A young sniffling Aria said.

“ Promise.” Aria opened her eyes after the 2 boys shook her.

“ Aria?! You know what you did just there?! You went into blankness man!” John said. David slap him across the head.

“ I may act like my father and look like him, but I known you long enough to slap you across the head, John, so don’t go all complaining.” Aria began to laugh. It had been her first time in a few days. The 2 boys looked at her.

“ What?” The both questioned in unison.

“ Nothing… hahaha…. It just that was… hahahaha… funny!” Aria said in-between her laughs. The 2 just looked at her confusingly.

After a few hours of getting to know to each other; the 3 were beginning to have quite a fun time. Aria began to imitate someone she saw one TV once.

“ Ahahahahaha!!! I’m Sailormoon! Wait, wrong show… um… I got it…. I’m Ayaka Kisaragi from Yuugenkaisya!” Aria said. She took a stick and used it as a sword. “ And with my Red-sprit-capture-star-sword… I will banish all evils!” John and David wouldn’t stop cracking up. John stood up and started to imitate some other TV show related thing.

“ No one can catch my Lucky Charms! Heart, Stars, and Horse-shoes, Clovers, and Blue Moons, Pots of Golden, Rainbows, and me Red Balloons!” John said in the best Irish accent he can muster.

“ I thought it was Heart, Stars, and Horse-shoes, Clove, and Balloons?” David asked.

“ You must listen closely, young grasshopper.” John said in a ancient Chinese monk type way. Aria fell into John’s arms, with her hand over her forehead.

“ Jonathan, darling, kiss me!” Aria said in a gone-with-the-wind-type-way. “ Then my soul will be free of this body!”

“ Yes, darling! But it would be scandalous! What would your parents think of you kissing a mere clown!” John said, going along with Aria.

“ Forget them!” Quatre walked in the moment the 2 were going to kiss, David sat there wide-eyed. Quatre cleared his throat, and Aria and John looked at him shocked. John dropped Aria on the floor.

“ OW! Baka! You almost broke my back!” Aria moaned.

“ Ops!! Let me help you up…” John said, as he helped her up. Aria brushed the dirt off her pants and looked at Quatre. She was totally embarrassed.

“ It seems you guys were havening a lot of fun.” Quatre said amusingly.

“ We were just playing, that’s all.” Aria said. “ Sorry for causing any problems.” She bowed. It was a habit she learned from her parents. Her parents always expected her to bow for forgiveness. Heero thought it would be honorable that way, knowing some of his Japanese past traditions.

“ No need to worry! I just wanted to meet you. So you are Aria Darlian Peacecraft-Yuy. You look so much like your mother, and your eyes are so much like your father’s.”

“ Well, a lot of people say that. Hee hee.”

“ Oh, you don’t have to act like that around me.”

“ I don’t! Thank god! Stupid habits…”

“ Well, let’s see here… yes now I remember. Your father and mother called from earth, since you didn’t pick up at your residence. They want to schedule a meeting, since Gundam pilot 02 is already there, and Gundam pilot 05 has not been confirmed. They want to discuss all that with you.”

“ Great, I’m here for 5 hours, and they already want me back.” Aria said under her breath.

“ They do that because they LUV you!” John said teasingly.

“ If you only knew, John. If you only knew…”

The 3 pilots walked inside Preventor hq. Now she felt like she was at home. A lot of the soldiers were saluting her, which made her feel a little funny. First they would just say hello, good-day, say hello to your dad for me, your dad inspired me to be here today, or you know how much you look like your mother. But now, she was another one of them, a solider. This is what she wanted.

Aria, John, and David walked in the conference room. Everyone looked up at them, and greeted them. Except a raven-haired boy sitting at the other end of the table. John sat right down, David began to undo his tie while sitting down, and Aria took a seat right next to her dad, trying to keep her eyes away from the raven-haired boy. She knew him from somewhere, but she just couldn’t remember well enough. Heero stood up and showed them to a projection on the table of the current map of the space colonies. Everyone turned his or her attention to the projection.

“ As you can see, currently the Redfang or New Rebellion White Fang are stationed near the X29890 colony. Which is the farthest colony in the whole colonial distribution…”

John was half awake, David wouldn’t stop playing with his tie, Duo was doing the same thing John was doing, and Milliardo was at full attention as well as Noin, Christopher, Aria, and Relena. Finally someone broke the silence.

“ The whole strategy is wrong.” A monotone voice said. Everyone turned to Christopher’s attention, except John and Duo who were already asleep. Heero raised an eyebrow.

“ How so?” Heero asked, amused. Something told him that he was just like him at this age.

“ You see, if the RedFang are positioned at these 5 colonies. And there are only 4 of us at the moment, how are we going to aim for the main ship, if we don’t know who is who.”

“ Well, you would just have to use your mind, now wouldn’t you?”

“ Yes. But the objective is to stop fires. Now if we eliminate the main source then all will die. It’s like when you kill the virus when it’s still curable.”

“ No. All of this is wrong.” Aria said. She stood up. “ Look at this. 5 battleships are positioned at 5 colonies. Now look at this. Each colony is positioned around the moon, but curved in a ring like this…” Aria said as she showed them. “ From my previous encounter with them. Any underestimating them will force them to blow up a colony. These colonies are bait. Bait for us to watch their death. I’ve already seen one; I don’t need to see another 5. So all we need to do is attack each one by one, and not one for each pilot. If you do that, disunity will happen and at least one colony will be destroyed.” Aria said. She sat back down.

“ Still, they can use a colony for bait. Your idea was no better than mine.” Christopher said. Aria glared at him.

“ And yours was??”

“ I never said it was. I was stating a fact. Your plan is just unethical.” Aria stood up from her chair, and slammed her hands on the table. Which woke up Duo and John. Everyone was looking at the glaring 2.

“ You have not seen a colony blow up in front of your eyes, have you? Have you?!” Aria said with more anger now. Christopher did not answer.

“ Answer me, damnit!”

“ No, I haven’t.” Christopher said in a monotone voice.

“ Arg! That’s all you can do. Is throw your opinion at people, and expect the world to revolve around it? Guess what, it’s not going to happen! I’ve already seen many children die in just a few days, you haven’t! You have no say in this, and as long as I’m leader of the Gundam pilots, you have no say in what I do or say in any ways. For all I care you can burn in hell with the rest of those bastards!!” And with those words, Aria stormed out of the conference room. Everyone stood in silence, even her parents. She never used such words before. Maybe damned but not those words. Aria locked the door of the empty target practice room. She sat in a corner and screamed for the whole place to hear. Her pains and sorrow floating with it.

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Lady Mercury: Deep wasn’t it! Okay, well it wasn’t that deep but that’s what you type when you listening to Ruruoni Kenshin Memories of Kotowari right now. Oh well… next chapter be out when ever I get to it.

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