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April 5, AC 197

Relena Peacecraft sat in her large office, a pile of paperwork in front of her when her secretary knocked on the partially open door. "Mrs. Relena, this letter just came for you via messenger."

Relena sighed and looked up from the proclamation she was looking over. "Very well." She held out her hand for the letter. After the secretary handed the letter over she turned and left the office. Relena sighed and put the letter aside to read later. As she was about to start reading again, a nagging feeling told her to stop what she was doing and read the letter. She put down the proclamation and opened the envelope. She took out the letter which was written on a unique stationary made from black paper with an elongated Chinese dragon design along the left hand side of the paper and the message 'the Dark Angel will always watch you" written in Japanese kanji. She took a deep breath and before reading the message written in silver ink visibly paling as she did.

Relena sat the letter on her desk and turned the chair to face the huge window. She gazed out at her kingdom which had rebuilt it's self from the war.

Almost an hour later, Heero walked into her office. He raised a concerned eyebrow when Relena didn't acknowledge his presence. He made his way over to her, his footsteps not making a sound on the carpeted floor, and rested his hand on his young fiancee's shoulder.

"Relena?"

Relena looked up at Heero, her face a calm cool mask, but her eyes reflecting concern.

"Relena, what's wrong?" he asked softly.

Relena didn't say a word as she turned back to her desk and handed the black paper to Heero who read the note himself.

"Mission Acknowledged," he said in his low monotone voice.

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April 9, AC 197

Relena sat in her office finishing a speech she is supposed to deliver at the L-1 colony in two weeks when a small icon indicating a new message popped up on the screen. She clicked on the icon and a black screen appeared. At first the screen was blank, but then a message appeared line by line on the screen.

Relena sighed as she shut off the computer just sitting there. "What is about to happen."

Sheena Lowe and her partner, Crimson Kelly, stood in a huge hanger were the few remnants of Peacmillion's engineering crew were working feverishly along side Howard to rebuild the five Gundams.

"So how is that new operating system coming along?" Howard asked as he peered over Sheena's shoulder.

"Surprisingly well Howard," she replied in a silky monotone voice keeping her eyes on the monitor. "In fact, all I need now are the voice recognition patterns and I can finish everything from here."

Howard looked closer to the monitor to read the data that Sheena had input. Shocked, the old man lifted his shades and took a second look. "Amazing, It's a good thing you two switched sides."

Sheena smiled her mock sugary smile. "It's lucky that I got you all those plans for the new model mobile suits."

Crimson snorted and looked at Sheena from over her monitor. "Too bad you couldn't get the plans for the new mobile dolls."

"Get what you can and get out with the skin still on your ass." Sheena said simply.

"I know, I know," Crimson rolled her eyes. "Rule one of kick the bad guy's ass handbook."

Sheena smirked the let her features return to their smooth emotionless mask. Howard and Crimson shook their heads. "She has too much Odin's personality in her."

"Well what would you expect, she is his daughter after all." Crimson did was shiver and return to work.

(A.N. I am referring to Odin Lowe, not Odin Jr.)

April 10, AC 197

Heero, with the help of Quatre got in touch with all the pilots. Within a frame of three hours, The five pilots, their girlfriends with the exception of Sally because she had run off with another man and got married, and Milliardo and Noin arrived at Relena's mansion.

"What's going on here Relena?' Milliardo asked looking at his sister who wore a serious look on her face.

Relena was about to respond when Pagen cleared his throat. "Miss Relena, your guest has arrived."

"Thank you Pagen, please show him in." Relena said as she stood and looked at the door.

"Oh there won't be any need for that, " a female voice said.

Wufei and Duo both sprung to their feet in a defensive manner stepping in front of Relena beside Heero. "Who in the hell are you lady?" Duo asked.

"Chill out before you give yourselves a heart attack," the stranger spoke. A dark skinned woman with long wavy raven black hair stepped out behind Pegan, She was dressed as if she were an MIB agent wearing a short black skirt, a white dress shirt, black tie, black suit jacket, and a pair of black high heeled ankle boots. She carried with her a briefcase as she walked in the room.

Duo reached behind his back and pulled out his pistol and stepped closer to her. "Hey lady, either you're deaf or you're ignoring me. I said who in…"

"…The hell am I. I heard you the first time and I suggest you put the gun away before someone gets hurt, preferably you," the woman said. She glanced at Relena through her black sunglasses that hid her now Prussian blue eyes. "My real name Isn't important right now, but for now call me Dark Angel."

Relena gasped and stepped in front of Duo. "You are the one who sent me this letter," she held up the black stationary.

"Correct." Dark Angel looked around at all gathered in Relena's office. "Is this everyone? Because I will not repeat anything." Her emotionless gaze locked on to Heero causing the usually emotionless solder to flinch.

"Yes," Relena replied. "Might in inquire about your real name?"

Dark Angel fixed Relena with a cold gaze the walked over to her desk. "That is on a need to know basis meaning I will tell you when you need to know." She put the briefcase on the desktop and opened it retrieving a CD-ROM off the top of a pile of file folders. "Now, let's get down to business." She said in her commanding voice *Before the others catch up to me.* She silently added.

"Yes, what is this all about?" Quatre asked watching Dark Angel carefully.

"Leftover remnants of the OZ faction have managed to pull together and formed a new group of rebels calling themselves Team Echo…" Dark Angel started. She slipped the CD into Relena's computer, the others looking as the data was displayed on a larger wall monitor that appeared from behind a wall panel. "Their engineers have managed to create a new, stronger model of the Leo, Virgo, and Aries mobile dolls," she said as the plans for the dolls were all displayed. "Their troops number in the hundreds of thousands and steadily are growing. They have bases around the world. I have even been lead to believe that they will target Relena."

Heero stepped closer to his girlfriend and put a hand on her shoulder. "That won't be a problem, I will protect her as I have always done."

Dark Angel shook her head. "That all good, but who will protect you and your comrades?" she cocked a thin eyebrow as she smirked.

Are you saying that you are going to protect us?" Noin asked.

"To be blunt, yes I am." Dark Angel said removing her sunglasses revealing dark Prussian blue eyes the same shade of Heero's. "After I got this information, I thought it was important to inform you of what is about to happen."

"How did you get this information?" Wufei asked with an accusing tone. "Are you one of them?"

Dark Angel crossed her arms over her chest and looked defiantly at Wufei. "As a matter of fact, Yes, I Am."

Milliardo and Heero both pulled their guns stepping protectively in front of Relena. "Is this some kind of trick?" Milliardo growled, his ice blue eyes glinting with anger.

Dark angel closed her eyes and sighed deeply. "I have no intention of hurting any of you or Miss Relena so please put away your guns." Heero cocked the gun not believing what she said. "Fine," Dark Angel sighed. "Have it your way," she lunged out as quick as a cobra's strike and hit a pressure point in their arm's causing them to drop the guns. She sighed deeply as she picked up the guns and emptied them.

"If you are a member of the Rebel forces, then why help us?" Noin asked.

"If she were sent here to kill all of us, we'd be dead by now," Duo spoke. "I believe her when she says she is here to help."

Dark Angel closed her eyes and quirked the corner of her mouth into a smirk. "You are correct Mr. Maxwell. My associates and I have come here to help protect the Sank Kingdom and it's symbol of peace."

"Your associates?" Quatre asked?

"Well actually…my partner, Crimson…" at that moment, her cell phone started ringing. She reached into the inner pocket of her suit jacket and pulled it out flipping it open. "Talk to me… I see… I figured he would do something like that…triangulation…ETA…definitely Not Good…I'll be back after I shake them off…Ja Ne"

"What was that all about?" Relena asked.

"None of your business princess." Dark Angel closed the phone then walked over to the window of the office looking out beyond the gated wall and tisked. "Well, It's been a slice but I have to run." Before anyone could object to her leaving, she grabbed her briefcase and darted out of the office.

Everyone in there was silent as they watched her run off. The silence was suddenly broken by the sound of an explosion outside the palace. All twelve people crowded around the window and saw a woman on a black motorcycle speed away from a military truck that had exploded.

"…You know, I think that girl has some mental problems," Duo finally said breaking the silence.

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April 15, AC 197

Heero sat at the desk in the room he shared with his fiancee and looked over the plans for the new model mobile dolls when an icon on the screen started blinking indicating a transmission. He sighed and clicked on the icon opening a new window. He was surprised when he saw Dark Angel's face which mirrored his own face.

"So we finally get to talk…Odin Jr." Dark Angel began in her soft voice.

Heero scowled gave her his "I'll-kill-you" glare. "How in the hell did you get through on this secured channel?"

The corner of Dark Angel's mouth quirked up as she fixed her emotionless eyes on Heero's. "You aren't even concerned how I knew your real name? What a shame."

"What do you want?"

"To help, and offer a gift to you…"

"Who are you?" Heero asked after a long pause starting to sense something familiar about her.

There was another long pause before Dark Angel sighed and took off her glasses. "My name is Sheena Lowe."

Heero's eyes widened as the shock became apparent on his face. "But Dr. J said you died…"

"He lied…listen…just come to these coordinates tomorrow at noon, got it?" Sheena said. She typed a few quick keystrokes then terminated the connection.

Sheena sighed and leaned back in the creaky desk chair. Crimson sighed and looked at her friend and partner. "Hey, want to catch a movie and lunch?"

Sheena looked into her cheerful friend's brilliant green eyes and smiled slightly. "Sure little sister, why not."

"Great!" Crimson cheered and headed towards the lockers. She changed from her work coveralls into a green short sleeved dress that stopped above her knees, a black denim jacket and a pair of white Keds. Sheena pulled on a white tank top, some black shorts and black jacket.

"Hey Howard," Crimson yelled. "Sheena and I are going out for a while."

Howard looked down from the catwalk and waived acknowledging their departure.

Duo, Hilde, Heero and Relena were walking out of the movie theater smiling. Obviously the movie they saw was a good one for the simple fact that they all were smiling…even Heero.

Relena peered over Heero's shoulder as she spied Sheena walk out of the theater holding hands with a girl with shocking red hair. (A.N. Sheena is not Lezbo. She and Crimson are very best friends almost like sisters) "Hey, isn't that Dark Angel? She asked pointing toward the two girls."

Duo raised an eyebrow and looked at the two. "Hey it is her." He stepped away from Hilde and yelled towards them. "Hey, Crazy Lady!" and waived his arms to get their attention.

Sheena looked over at the two couples and sighed exasperated," Great, there goes my peaceful evening."

"Hn?" Crimson asked raising an eyebrow and turned to see the two couples walking closer to them. She smiled brightly. "Hi, you must be Duo and Heero, Sheena's talked so much about you…Oof!" she started then gasped when Sheena elbowed her in her side.

The two couples started walking towards the parking lot where talking the whole time. Sheena slowed her steps then stopped all together when she suddenly heard someone approaching them. She turned around and saw a black motorcycle turn the corner. On the motorcycle were two men sitting back to back. "OH Shit!" she exclaimed reaching into her jacket pulling out a glock .45 and taking aim.

"What the F…?" Duo exclaimed as a hail of bullets suddenly poured from the man on the motorcycle's machine gun.

People screamed and ducked as the bullets flew. Heero pulled Relena down to the ground and covered her body with his to protect her. Duo threw himself and Hilde into an alley and covered her protecting her.

Crimson pulled out her semi automatic hand gun and took stance next to Sheena firing at the gunmen. One of the bullets from Crimson's gun struck the front tire causing them to crash into a streetlight knocking the two men senseless.

"Sheena…I think I was shot," Crimson's small voice trembled as she breathed heavily then sank to her knees.

Sheena looked towards her best and only friend as her body fell to the ground, a pool of blood slowly creeping away from her body. "Crim!" she screamed.

Enraged, Sheena walked over to the two recovering gunmen and kicked them sharply in the ribs. Heero got up letting Relena get to her feet and watched as Sheena viciously beat the two gunmen. Sheena pulled the helmets off the two and gasped then growled.

"You…" she aimed her gun at the first gunman's head shooting a bullet through his skull killing him instantly. She ripped the helmet off the other gunman's head and shot him in the skull as well.

She walked back over to where her best and only friend lay dying and gently cradled her dying body in her arms.

Crimson barely opened her eyes and coughed up some blood. "You know what this means," she whispered. Sheena nodded her head to choked up to speak. Crimson with the last of her strength slipped the bracelet off her wrist and sliding it onto Sheena's wrist. "Ya going to have to fly this mission solo."

"Hang on Crim, everything will be aright," she said more to reassure herself. "Just hang on little sister."

Crimson curved her lips smiling weakly grasping Sheena's hand. "Sheena…promise me that you'll get that bastard before peace is gone."

"I promise I'll get them for you."

Crimson smiled then closed her eyes as her body went limp in Sheena's arms. Her hand slipping from her grasp falling on her chest.

Heero walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Will you be aright?" he asked.

Sheena opened her eyes which had become colder than steel, she turned to look at Heero who shivered. "Mission briefing tomorrow, Noon, at the coordinates I gave you. Don't be late and don't piss me off."

An Ambulance pulled up and took Crimson from Sheena's arms. She watched for a moment as the Ambulance pulled off into the distance.

"I Promise"

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 April 16, AC 197

Howard and the rest of the engineers kept their distance from Sheena since they found out about Crimson's murder. She silently checked her check list then finished inspecting and testing the first three Gundams in the hanger. She paused as she reached the last three. Sheena bit her lip as she stepped toward Crimson's work area.

Howard sensing some hesitation in Sheena approached her and put a comforting hand on her shoulder, which she promptly shrugged off. "I don't want your goddamn sympathy right now. These suits need to be fully operational by morning."

Howard didn't say a word and backed off. Sheena finished her inspection then went over to her computer and rapidly typed in the test codes for the operating system she installed in the Gundams.

Four knocks brought caught Sheena's attention. She looked at the clock on the wall and sighed realizing that it was noon. She locked the terminal and walked to let the Gundams pilots and Milliardo minus their girlfriends into the hanger.

"Hey Sheena, sorry about…" Duo started when she snapped at him.

"Can it Maxwell now is not the time for pity. We have a mission that has to be accomplished." Sheena snapped wiping her hands on a greasy towel.

Wufei snorted and rolled his eyes. "Imagine me, taking mission orders from a Woman"

Sheena's blood boiled pushing her to the breaking point and she quickly lunged at Wufei punching him in the jaw. "Now if there are no other interruptions, I can get started and get you the hell out of here."

Howard walked out to greet the boys and listen in on the briefing.

Sheena took a deep breath. "As you recall when I visited you all five days ago, I gave you the plans for the new mobile dolls. Well, because many attempts at sabotage, the Echo Organization has relocated their base of operation to the abandoned lunar base L642581 also known as the Shadow Moon base."

Heero looked intently at the map that appeared on a large wall screen. "I know where that is," heero said as he closed his eyes.

"I know…that's why Dr. J insisted I contact you for this mission."

"What?" All the pilots gasped.

Trowa watched silently at the strength Sheena was displaying to the pilots after hearing about what happened the night before. He remained silent and watched as the rest of the pilots interrupted her with questions. "Will you all please shut up so she can finish?" he finally said.

Everyone looked at him surprised. Sheena nodded a thank you then continued with the mission briefing. She then led them to another part of the warehouse where the newly rebuilt Gundams and a new model of Epyon stood. "These new Gundams are made with a gundaium tritainum alloy and are more stronger than your old suits. The operating system here has also been upgraded as well."

"You rebuilt all the Gundams?" Quatre asked amazed. "Can we take a look at them?"

"After the briefing." Sheena said.

An Hour later after Sheena finished bringing the boys up to date on the mission, she let them looks around the hanger area of the workshop while she snuck away for some fresh air.

After Trowa finished checking out the new control system in his gundam He wandered over to another part of the hanger and spotted two more Gundam mobile suits. The first one looked like Wing Zero except it was painted mostly black and silver. The other one next to it looked similar to his Heavy Arms. Howard and Duo walked over to where Truwa stood and looked up at the Gundams. Duo whistled as he looked up at the two Gundams.

"Amazing, aren't they," Howard said looking over the black version of Wing zero. "Sheena and Crimson designed and built both of these mobile suits themeslves."

"They look like Zero and Heavy Arms," Duo commented.

Howard nodded his head. "Sheena found the old prototype plans for both of these models and custom built their own suits from there."

"I take it Sheena pilots that one," Heero said pointing to the dark version of Wing Zero.

Howard nodded. "That's Dark Angel, but I have a feeling that this time she should stay out of the cockpit."

"Why do you say that?" Quatre asked concerned.

Howard sighed and looked up at the Dark Angel gundam. "With Sheena's current mental state, I am afraid that the C.D.A.O.S will destroy her mind."

"And what does that mean?" Trowa asked.

"Will she become as friendly at Mr. Personality over thare?" Duo Joke. "Uh, what is the C.D.A.O.S?"

Howard scratched his head not knowing exactly how to explain it. "Well…it stands for Combat Data Analytical Operations System. This system was also a prototype for the Zero, but because of the resulting mental status of the pilot after using the system it was thrown away all together."

"Is this the same system that is in our Gundams?" Wufei asked.

"No," Sheena replied from the doorway. "I wrote a different operating program for your Gundams." She sighed and walked over to the Gundams and looked up at them and sighed.

Trowa stood close by and could clearly see the sadness in her eyes. "What will happen to you if you use Dark Angel during tomorrow's mission."

"I'll loose my soul," she simply said as she headed out. "We depart at 0400 hours. You are welcome to stay here till mission time," she said as she walked out the door.

Trowa silently watched Sheena walk away

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April 17 AC 197

The Gundam Pilots, Milliardo, and Sheena took off from the hanger after loading their suits in a carrier. Silently Sheena and Heero flew the carrier to an abandoned colony. From there, they piloted their mobile suits to the to the moon.

Heero opened a direct communication channel to Sheena wanting to get some things settled. "Sheena…Oneechan, what happened to you back then?"

"Father died and I was left alone. That is all you need to know." Sheena said softly. She then opened a channel to all the other Gundams. "We're approaching our target, be ready for anything," she said. Sheena picked up a small hands free microphone with tiny ear piece and gingerly attached it to her right ear. She quickly punched in some commands bringing the C.D.A.O.S. online. A smaller comm. Window appeared in all the other mobile suits as Sheena worked out a strategy. "Heero, you and Duo take the north position. Quatre take the south…"

Before She could finish with the attack strategy, at least 80 of the new model Leo's opened attack on the pilots. Because the new mobile suits were made of a new alloy stronger than Gundainum, they hand a hard time battling them. Luckily mobile were manned which meat that at least for them 97 percent of Echo were on the base.

All of the Gundams opened fire on the enemy mobile suits slowly destroying them, but it wasn't as easy as before. These mobile suits were made of gundanium which made the job a little harder than before.

Sheena pulled out her energy saber and sliced through the suits as she made her way down to the base to accomplish her mission. She flipped on a switch activating the on board data recorder then flew directly at the base where more Mobile suits were being deployed from.

Meanwhile, Trowa managed to catch Sheena plowing through the suits with her saber and heading towards the base. "Sheena, what in the hell are you doing?"

"My mission," she said softly as she opened the thrusters all the way flying at the base full speed. She fired her buster rifle at the base setting off several explosions. She aimed the buster rifle at the main power room of the base causing a larger explosion. Her gundam was caught in the blast and catapulted away, her gundam plowing through the last few remaining enemy mobile suits

"It looks like our mission is complete," Duo said looking at all the scrap metal then at the destroyed base.

"Yeah, where's Sheena?" Quatre asked surveying the battlefield.

Heero looked around until he came across a severely damaged Gundam floating in space. "Sheena, Sheena, come in."

Silence.

Trowa and Heero towed her suit back to the abandoned colony. After they docked, they were surprised when they pried open the cockpit of the Dark Angel. Sheena sat slumped in the seat, blood dripping from cuts and lacerations all over her body. Trowa carefully reached in and pulled out the unconscious young woman.

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April 21 AC 197

Sheena sat up and moaned softly as she sat up. "Where am I?" she wearily murmured looking around at the pale light blue and white room. The smell of the air told her that she was in a hospital. the pain in her arm from the IV tube confirmed her assumption. She wiggled her fingers and toes, "No paralysis…good sign." She checked and assessed the rest of her injuried and gasped when she heard someone walk in her room.

"I see you're feeling a little better," Trowa said softly as he walked on the room.

Sheena nodded her head then closed her eyes. "Why did you save me?" she asked softly.

"….."

Sheena opened her eyes and smiled liking Trowa. She glanced at her hands at all her borken nails and sighed inwardly to herself "I'm going to need two full spa days when I get out of here" She raised an eyebrow when she felt Trowa's fingers intertwine with hers as he held her hand. She smiled and leaned back Drifting off to sleep.

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Epilogue…

Sheena adjusted the white straw hat so the brim concealed her eyes which were already hidden behind a pair of black sunglasses from all those who walked past her. Her foot falls sounded softly as she approached her destination. Stopping in front of a small white headstone she sighed and removed her dark glasses.

"Hey little sister. Sorry I missed the memorial service I got pretty banged up finishing up our mission." She tucked the glasses in the pocket of her charcoal blazer then set a bouquet of Crimson's favorite flowers in front of the headstone.

"I figured I would find you here," Trowa said softly as he walked up behind Sheena.

Sheena glanced over her shoulder a slight smile touched her lips as she felt Trowa's hand come to rest on her slender waist. Sheena looked back at the headstone and read the inscription.

Trowa hugged Sheena close to him and dropped a kiss on her forehead. "C'mon… everyone's worried about you," he said softly gently pulling her back towards where he parked his car.

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