| �Does anyone know were Xena is?� Duo asked noticing her absence. �She said that she was going to get a bite to eat, but if I know her she saw the first room, went in and fell asleep. I guess I�ll go and get her.� Megan walked off follow the most probable path that Renee might have taken. She came to the first room and opened the door. Sure enough there was Renee lying on the couch sleeping. Megan walked over and sat down next to her and gently shook her shoulder. When there came no answer Megan shook a little harder. �Xena c�mon we have to go.� This time Renee�s eyes shot open and she sat up. �You ok?� �Yeah I�m fine. What�s going on?� � I�ll tell you on the way.� Megan lead the half asleep pilot back to their Gundams, the whole way telling her of the game plan to ending the war. When they got there it seemed as thought it was all going to start all over again. Again Renee boarded her Gundam and started up and again watched as the others did the same. Then a face appeared on her screen. It was Quatre. �Megan informed you of what was going on?� �Yeah. She told me. We are looking for the mobile doll control room to disable them, and destroy the Libra. I got it.� �Ok then we are just going to fly right though and hope they don�t send out another wave of mobile dolls against us.� Renee nodded. �And Nay? Please, be careful.� Renee nodded. �Same to you. I have a bad felling about this.� She saw Quatre give a quick nod and a reassuring look then was gone. The door opened and they all left. This time though Noin was with them in her white space Taurus. They got about half way there when suddenly Noin back out. �I�m sorry. I just can�t. I�m so sorry.� She sounded really upset. �It�s ok Miss Noin. Don�t worry we�ll handle this.� They continued on their way when they all saw it. Another wave of attacks. They must have seen them coming. Then Wufie ducked out too. �Wufie what are you doing?!� Duo yelled after him. �I�ll stay out here and divert their attention while you all get in, besides I have a feeling Trieze is going to be here and I have a score to settle with him.� �Alright, Megan you go with him for back up.� Quatre ordered. �Right.� Megan veered and followed to insure that her friends got to their destination. The rest of them safely entered and landed on the Libra. Quatre split them off into and sent them in different directions. Renee was about to follow Quatre when he popped up again on her screen. �I would like you to go with Trowa if you don�t mind. I don�t want him to wander alone if he doesn�t have all his memories back. Do you mind?� �No not at all. Hey but please be careful. Like I said I have a really bad feeling about all of this.� Quatre nodded and was gone. She watched as the Sandrock took off in its own direction. �Well shall we Trowa?� Renee asked. �Yeah sure. Let�s go.� They flew in a ways and exited their Gundams to walk around a little bit. They ran into a few guards, but nothing that was really major. They reentered their Gundams and headed out again. On their way they found Duo who was just leaving with a full load. He found the scientists that had built the Gundams that they sat in. �Hey Trowa, Renee. How you doing? I hope you will be fine on your own I have to run an erron.� �Yeah no problem will be just fine Duo go do what you have to do.� �Alright see you all later I hope. Be careful.� And with that he flew off into the dark backdrop of space. They continued on their way when out of no where Trowa was suddenly worried. �Hold on I�m coming Quatre!� He said to no one. �Trowa what are you talking about?� Renee was totally missing whomever he was talking to. �Quatre�s in trouble! I have to go and help him. Are you coming?� �Of course I�m coming!� Renee followed Trowa as he headed off. He looked like he knew exactly were he was going. Finally they stopped and got out of the Gundams once again. Trowa lead Renee to a door. She looked at the keypad, or what was left of it. It had been shot open. Trowa touched the pad and the door opened. The light pored into the room to reveal two figures. One was standing with a saber in hand and the other floating apparently dead. Renee took a closer look to see who the winner was. She looked harder. Then she recognized the figure. Dorothy Catalonia! Renee remembered her from a previous meeting back when her and Quatre went to the Sanc Kingdom. Renee highly despised her. She had insulted Renee and called her senseless. Just the sight of her made Renee�s blood boil. Then she looked to the other figure. At first she couldn�t tell who it was till she looked at the space suit and familiar tuff of blonde hair. Quatre! It was Quatre! Without a second thought Renee ran. �OH! MY! GOD! QUATRE!!� Renee ran and grabbed the body out of the air with small tears starting to run down her tanned skin. Quickly she took him to the side and checked for a pulse. ********************* Outside Libra, Megan and Wufie were busy fighting off what seemed like and endless supply of mobile dolls. Then Trieze showed up and Wufie left Megan to deal with the mobile dolls on her own. As it turned out she wasn�t completely alone. The Maguanac Copse, a group of followers for Quatre had shown up. They were given orders by the leader that no one was to leave till they saw �Master Quatre� as they called him. Then she saw Duo go flying though, telling everyone, �Look out y�all they God of death and the Lords of plague are coming though!� Megan had to laugh at that one. Oh yeah he was definitely an American. Without question. Alone with that in an attempt to stop Libra Peacemillion made the decision to ram the large battle ship. Luckily they didn�t explode on contact. Everyone was safe and they immediately went about the repair of what they could. While watching from a distance Noin ran into Zechs who wanted to destroy the Peacemillion before it had the chance to ram. Noin refused to let him though no matter how much it hurt her. Zechs tried to destroy her but just couldn�t bring himself to do it. So he left. While out marauding around, Zechs had run into Heero Yuy and the two started to finish the battle that they started what seemed like an eternity ago. Noin stood close by to watch. *********************** �I fight because I have a family to return to.� Trowa had been lecturing Dorothy on his reasons for still fighting, while at the same time disconnecting all of the mobile dolls. Renee remained in the corner with the badly injured, bleeding and half conscience Quatre in her arms. She had taken part of her sleeve from under her space suit to cover the wound and stop the bleeding. The saber had gone all the way though. �Well unlike you I don�t have a family to go back to.� Dorothy now sat solemnly listening to Trowa, and watching as Renee carefully tended to Quatre still teary eyed from the horror. �Gee I wonder why?� Renee�s sarcastic tone was vicious. Renee was so angry that she would have killed her on the spot if it wasn�t for Quatre grabbing her hand and asking her to spare Dorothy�s life. �Anyway, I remember a wise friend of mine telling me that the only way to live a good life was to act on your emotions. I have found that there is nothing wring with that, but sometimes you have to think about those emotions first.� Trowa paused long enough for Renee to let out a loud snort. Quatre winced and gave a small cry of pain and Renee redirected her attention back to him. Finally Trowa finished. �Ok that should do it.� He walked over to Renee and Quatre. �Quatre, can you stand?� Quatre looked at them with desperate eyes. �Leave me and make sure she gets out of this! Don�t worry about me! Just go!� �No way! There is no way in hell I�m leaving you here!� Renee pulled Quatre to his feet and started to walk him to the door. He looked at her again with his deep blue eyes pleading with her to help Dorothy. In his injured state she sighed and grabbed Dorothy�s helmet that was drifting near by, and tossed it to her. �Whatever you do, make it though this� Quatre told her as they left the room. Once out they quickly hurried to the Gundam�s waiting outside. They boarded and started up again when Duo popped in. �Hey there you are. Are you ready? Hey where�s Quatre?� �I�m�right...here.� He said slowly between deep breaths. �Alright let�s go end this thing and then afterwards will celebrate with some expensive champaign!� Duo was all cheers. �Yeah sounds good to me. Just as long as it�s non- alcoholic.� Quatre answered trying not to let his injury get to him. �You know if you weren�t injured I�d slap you.� Renee sighed, but she wouldn�t help admire his spirit. He wasn�t letting anything get to him. Slowly but steadily they left the Libra. Once outside all they could do was watch. �Umm guys?� Renee asked as a thought struck her. �Yeah?� Duo was the first to answer. �Did the thought that Libra is aiming to crash into Earth? I mean it�s just a thought. I mean they could be heading to Earth to have a tea party.� �She�s right! They�re headed straight to Earth. And if they crash it will cause a lot of trouble, we have to get in and destroy it from the inside.� Quatre�s thinking was always quick. �Alright then let�s do it!� Duo had already started on his way. Quickly everyone followed in the rat race to catch Libra. Just then from behind up raced Megan and Wufie. They managed to pull ahead and were now leading the pack. It took them a while but they finally reached the block of Libra with the power supply. They entered and started to shot at anything they could in hopes of disabling the ship. But is seemed everything they did just wasn�t enough. Then Renee notices something. �Hey guys! Did anyone notice Heero and Zechs were in here?� �They are? Good!� Wufie answered before he took off. �Were is he going in such a rush?� Megan as she got a lock on her target. She let loose a shot and watched as the target went up in smoke in front of her. �Got me. Hey Gabby! Tag Team!� Renee yelled. �Yeah! How about that block over there?� �Sounds good to me!� Renee locked on target, as did Megan. �FIRE!� They yelled in unison. They fired at the target and watched as the chuck blew to bits. They both let out a destructive laugh and went about their work. �You guys get too much enjoyment out of this.� Trowa said with a chuckle. �Well you have to enjoy your job I guess.� Duo chuckled relentlessly. �Nothing we are doing is helping any.� Quatre voice was full of distress. �Self-detonation is an option.� Trowa was hesitant to say that in front of the girls. He himself didn�t believe that it was right for women to sacrifice themselves for a cause like this. �That won�t be necessary. I just gave Heero his buster rifle back.� Wufie was just entering again. �Well then I guess we had better get out of his way!� The stress if Quatre�s voice was completely gone. �Yeah wouldn�t want to get hit with that!� They girls replied in absolute unison. They stopped and laughed before leaving the remains of Libra. Once outside they waited. *************** Heero stared at his fellow pilot. � Here take this, use it to destroy Libra�s power source. We�ll get out of your way.� Wufie gave the buster rifle a toss. Heero caught it with ease then he was gone. Heero turned to his challenger, Zechs in the Epyon, who had just lost the battle. �You had better get out now if you want to live though this.� Heero turned to the power source and prepared to fire when he was stopped. Zechs took over. �You go now! I�ll take care of this! Now go! You have to look after Relena and make sure she gets out of all of this alive.� Zechs yelled at Heero as if he was dumb not to know this already. �Roger.� Heero�s voice was deadpan as usual, and he took off. Once he was outside did the ship blow (yes everyone evacuated the ship first.). **************** Outside everyone saw the ship as it went up in smoke. There was a volley of cheers and hollers of joy. And of course Renee and Megan, who sat there and said �BOO YAAAAA� as if it meant something. Then the celebrating stopped as they all noticed that there was a block of the ship that got loose and was now heading for Earth. �Do we have to worry about that? I mean it isn�t that incredibly big.� Renee asked hoping they wouldn�t have to stop the party. �Yes we do that is still big enough to do a lot of damage to Earth.� Quatre once again regained the worry voice. �Wait there�s Heero!� Megan just noticed the moving figure out of her left screen. �Heero! A piece of the ship is still heading for Earth! Can you get it?� �Roger that!� Heero took it as his mission to get rid of it. He flew ahead of the piece and turned to face it. With his back to the heat of the atmosphere this was going to be hard and possibly fatal. But nevertheless it was something he had to do. His Gundam shook violently as he tried to aim, but the atmosphere made that next to impossible. Still he refused to give up or die. �I will.� The red target cursor jumped around the screen. �I will.� He repeated. Still he couldn�t get a lock and he had but one shoot at this. It had better be soon Zero was starting to fall apart from the pressure of the atmosphere. � I will!� THERE! A lock. �I will survive!� He fired. The others watched in fear for afar. They watch as he just continued to sit there. What is he doing?! Shoot Heero! Was about what was running though all of the pilots� heads. Then finally he shot! Direct hit! They all sat in awe as the piece shattered and spread harmlessly across the Earth sky in a spectacular meter shower. Then out of the rubble came the Wing Zero in plane mode. Again rose the volley of cheers and yells of happiness. �WAY TO GO HEERO!� Renee yelled in sheer delight. �NICE JOB HEERO!� Megan was thrilled. �GOOD ONE MAN I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT!� Duo was about to jump up and down in the Deathsythe. �Hey Quatre look! Heero did it! He did it!� Renee popped up on the screen of Quatre�s cockpit. He turned to her and smiled. �Yeah he sure did.� Quatre nodded. � Now we can celebrate! YAY! Are you ok Quatre?� As Renee looked Quatre looked as if he was going to cry. But if anything it was because he was happy. They all were. �Yeah. For the first time in a while I think I am.� He answered with a smile. They all bored the satellite MOII. Where they meet Relena, Lady Une, Sally, Noin, Howard and everyone else. As soon as they got off their Gundams Renee ran over and gave Megan a hug, then they proceeded to give Trowa a hug and then Quatre. When they got to Quatre though Renee wasn�t thinking and went right on and forgot about the injury. Her hug sent him to the ground. Renee and Megan quickly helped him back up and Megan gave him a gentle hug. They all went in and celebrated. �Hey I have an idea!� Relena stopped the party. �And what is that?� Megan was suspicious of her tone of voice. �Why don�t all come and stay with me at the school. We could use some male students, and some interesting girls too.� She said referring to Renee and Megan. Megan glared and Renee laughed. �Well what do you all say? There is plenty of room. Enough for you all to have your own rooms, and even then some. So come on what do you say?� Quatre was the first to respond. �Yeah why not it�ll give us something to do, and we can still visit family when we want. Why not guys?� �Oh hell why not?� Renee gave in. �On one condition. As soon as we get there you go straight to your room and rest. And I mean you better do some serious sleeping.� Renee scolded as if it were his fault for what happened. Quatre nodded. �OK so what do the rest of y�all think?� �Yeah sure why not?� Duo agreed. � I really don�t care.� Heero looked totally fried from the day. �Whatever. I have no were to go.� Wufie answered. � Yeah ok sounds good to me. Trowa?� Megan looked to Trowa. �Yeah sure I call Catherine and tell her.� �Yes!� Megan extended the pulled her elbow into her side. Then jumped on Trowa and landed him a kiss on the cheeks. He hugged her and the celebrating went on. Renee looked around and saw Quatre was sitting in the corner. She walked over to make sure he was ok. �You ok?� She was worried and it was apparent. She sat down next to him on the floor. �And don�t give me a �yeah I�m fine� and then I find out that you�re NOT fine, cause then I�ll kill you.� She looked him right in the eyes. They were the deepest blue she had ever seen. He didn�t answer, so she asked again. �Quatre are you really ok or do you need something? Do you need to go somewhere to rest? Tell me so I can help.� Quatre gently placed a hand on her shoulder. �I�m fine just tired. Trust me. I just need a little rest.� �You know you really gave me a scare back there. I mean I really thought that we all lost you. I mean do you know that besides Megan you are the only one who had ever cared about what I say and do and think? I mean ever since my parents split so long ago I have more or less been on my own until I meet the man that asked me if I wanted to change my life forever. And then to think that you were gone really scared me. Not only would it effect me but Trowa too, you ARE his best friend, no questions asked. So you see what I mean?� Renee finally decided that was enough spilling her guts for now, she would save the rest for a latter time. �Yeah I see what you mean. But I am here and we won and everyone is safe so best not to worry and just relax.� Quatre was quiet now. He was definitely getting tired. Really tired. Renee looked out to see Megan was lying on Trowa�s shoulder whispering to him about something. He replied and Megan just about died laughing quietly to herself. She caught Renee�s gaze and giggled. Renee gave her the �what on earth?� look. Megan raised a finger and pointed to Quatre who was sitting next to her, but only then did Renee realize the extra weight on her shoulder. She looked over and sighed, then smiled. She knew this happened before only now it was reverse roles. He was the one sleeping and she was the bed. Megan grinned and went back to talking to Trowa. She giggled. How ironic. She took another look at the now sound asleep boy at her side. This ship was freezing cold and he was injured and cold. She could tell cause his lips were turning an unusual shade of blue. Renee rapped her arm around him to keep him warm. Once again she caught Megan�s attention, she pointed to the sleeping figure and mouthed the word �blanket�. Megan caught it and went to get one. She came back and handed it to her friend. Renee covered the boy but didn�t leave. Instead she just stayed with him and fell asleep herself. **** 3 Months Later********* �I got it! And there�s nothing you can do about it!!� Renee ran down the hall of the large house holding Quatre�s violin in one hand a s squirt gun in the other. Quatre was chasing her to get his violin back and ended up getting wet in the process. This was the 5th time that week that she had taken it. The other 2 were Megan�s doing. He couldn�t help but laugh despite it all. The girls were so playful now that it was funny. While Quatre had his hands full with Renee, Trowa was busy with Megan. Heero was constantly busy escorting Relena everywhere she had to go, peace meetings and conventions and so on and so forth. He never looked happy with it but yet at the same time never complained about it. Duo and Hilde spend a lot of time together now that she was better now too. They always seemed to have a good time together. Wufie was mostly to himself, but sometimes they got him out when the al got together to play Renee and Megan�s favorite game, Scatagories! Of course all his answers were either something to do with people being weak or something being injustice. They all laughed about it and went on with life. The neat part about it all was that even after being soldiers for so long that now that it was all over they still found something to do with their lives. They had all joined in the new organization called Preventers, which did just what they said they put out and prevented fires from starting in order to keep the peace. To be honest they all liked it there. It kept them busy and they were helping to keep the peace that they almost ended up sacrificing their lives to create. And for once all was well and happy, as Quatre continued his attempt to regain his poor violin. The end. A.N. This took me a long long time to write and it is all based on the real thing. Yes I know I might have messed up a detail here and there but most of the changes are intentional. I wrote this cuz I thought it was important for people to know what happens after the �Big Battle� that people always talk about. There is a lot more to war than the battles we all fight. There is an emotional pressure on those who fight the front line. This is just a small look at that. (Partly cuz I would be able to write everything that happened in that time not to mention you would be here for a year reading.) But for the most part I�m, proud of this. So read and tell me what you think I will be more than happy to hear what you think. Good or bad just don�t kill me! Nay. |