Lese: narrowed her eyes Heero meant business and if she didn’t move her sweet lil butt

soon there wasn’t going to be much left of it. She looked at the controls quickly
“ Um…um…”

She then grabbed the scythe controls hard wrenching them violently; the scythe swung up

from the ground and blocked Heero’s beam sabre in a shower of energy.
“ Ugh..Well that was close” muttered lese winded from the impact and more than a little

surprised she wasn’t dead.

 

Heero growled, he’d expected the attack to floor the girl…she had duo’s catlike

reflexes, he smirked a little maybe this might prove to be a bit more of a challenge

than he’d previously thought. He backed zero off for a second to break the lock with the

beam scythe, then slammed the gundams arm to one side, throwing lese off balance and

making her loose her grip on the controls, the scythe lowered and Heero followed the

advantage, bringing the beam sabre in hard across the body of the death scythe.

 

 The braided girl shielded her eyes as the cock pit systems sparked and she was thrown

hard back against her seat, her head smacked sickeningly off the head rest and she tried

desperately to focus as Heero came in hard from the right.

 

“ Cop a load a this Heero” she growled shielding herself with the scythe and slamming

her fist off the console, death scythes glaive headed towards wing zero.

 

On the ground wufei was stood transfixed outside the door he’d just rushed out of, his

eyes were pinned on the two fighting gundams in front of him, for fighting they were

“ She lives” he whispered, unable to believe the annoying onna in the ridiculous floral

print shorts was actually surviving against Heero. For the briefest instant there was a

glimmer of respect within wufei before his arrogance sought it out and squashed it flat

with extreme prejudice. Quatre turned and noticed the Chinese pilot stood there and

smiled

“ Wufei what are you doing here?” he asked, his bright blue eyes the picture of

innocence. He nearly burst out laughing, as the normally cool pilots cheeks took on a

slightly hot look despite the sub zero temperature

 

“ I..I…I came to see that annoying woman get the thrashing she deserves” he stuttered

trying to cover his embarrassment, still shaken his previous plan of rescuing Celeste

Maxwell appeared to no longer be needed the girl was almost as good as her brother.

Quatre smiled again

 

“ Ahhh that’s all is it?” he knew he shouldn’t tease wufei but he just couldn’t help

himself, he was resisting the urge to pack wu and lese off to some remote island and

play match maker, he couldn’t help it he was a romantic. Shenlong’s honey however just

scowled

 

“ Of course winner why else would I be out in this freezing weather?!! Because I enjoy

Maxwell’s company?!!” he snorted, luckily duo didn’t hear this, he was too busy pacing

up and down the steps chewing his lip and casting worried looks at his koi and sister

fighting, he didn’t know who to cheer for, actually he did…his poor gundam that now had

at least a couple of thousand dollars worth of damage to it

 

“ Jeez He chan easy on the paint work” he muttered, his eyebrows drawing together as

Heero barely missed being hit with Lese’s glaive. Then all the pilots fell silent unable

to believe what happened next, Heero drew out the beam cannon and charged it aiming

straight for death scythe point blank, at this range duo’s sister and the gundam would

<DI< font>V>be incinerated

 

“ Oh Allah” breathed Quatre turning ashen and trembling, duo clung onto wufei unable to

speak just shaking his head in disbelief, wu didn’t move his piecing gaze was fixed upon

death scythe as yet again he saw in his minds eye it go down in flames, his eyes

shimmered almost on tears as he whispered

 

“ You will survive onna Yui has weaknesses see them, for the love of Nataku fight”

Lese’s violet eyes went wide as she saw the beam cannon pointed right at her, and

silently made peace with her maker

 

“ Oh god” she mumbled, she spun the scythe round in her hand and saw Heero’s right side

was open, she bit her lip slamming the handle of the scythe into zero’s chest panting.

It worked Heero staggered back, he’d expected her to try and run or avoid the attack not

to counter attack in what was clearly the face of superior firepower. He stared at the

image of Celeste as she appeared on screen, clearly the worse for wear but not backing

down, she wiped the sweat from her head on the back of her hand as death scythe backed

off raising the beam scythe up to guard the gundams body.

 

“ Any brotherly advice duo before ya scraping me off the ground?” she gasped. Duo let go

of wufei and grabbed the COM his face frantic

“ Lese ya don’t have ta go through with this ya know. If ya ask he chan ta stop he

will!!” he yelled. Lese cast a sceptical look at zero, the beam cannon now glowing as it

began to charge

 

“ I aint so sure duo…he’s charging” her brothers head whipped round to see zero bathed

in the yellow light from the cannon as the gundam planted it’s feet firmly in the ground

to take the back lash of the blast. 

 

“ HE-CHAN!!! YA NOT GONNA FIRE THAT THING AT MY SIS ARE YA?!!” he screamed at the

Japanese pilot, Heero appeared briefly on screen, his eyes cold

“ Hn she asked for a battle she’ll get one” he replied before he disappeared from the

screen and fired

 

“ Aggghhh!!” yelled lese throwing the gundam violently to the ground and wrenching her

shoulder in the process as she was hauled back viciously by her harness. Deaths the for

an instant was obscured from view by the blinding light from the cannon

 

“ Lese?!! Ya ok??!!” yelled duo being held back by Trowa and wufei from running in

between the two gundams, his breathing rapid now and his face dead pan white

“ Ugh yeah I’m just peachy we should so do this again some time” came his sisters

sarcastic reply over the comb as she tried to get her bearings. She looked up to see the

form of zero walking towards her, Heero pointed the beam canon at the girl again, lese

swallowed, she was pretty sure her shoulder was dislocated, a concussion was pretty much

a certainty judging from the gash she had on her head and she was out of ideas….this guy

was a pro she was beginning to feel like a poor amateur.

 

“ Ya made ya point Heero, I dun belong in a gundam,” she whispered bowing her head.

Heero glared at the com, she’d lasted too long to give up he was going to push her more,

she had it in her, if she didn’t then at least she wouldn’t be a threat to duo anymore.

He sat back in his seat and pressed the fire controls for the beam cannon

“ Giving up already?” he snarled. Lese growled, she’d never given up in her life, if

this is what that stoic son of a bitch wanted

 

“ Fine” she snapped rolling easily out of the way of his attack and getting up “ you

want me? You got me baby!”  With a roar she spun the scythe round and turned the gundam,

body slamming Heero’s and nearly making him drop the cannon

 

“ Stop if I asked him duo?” she grunted, using the scythe handle to knock the legs from

beneath zero. Duo could think of no reply as zero hit the ground hard, causing the earth

to shake, lese got ready to back off considering the battle over, Heero however did not.

Zero took into the air and assumed it’s bird form, and then it began a headlong

collision with death scythe

 

“ ……….I’m dead” whispered lese staring at the rapidly descending form of zero

“ Lese get outta the way!!!” hollered duo unable to believe what was happening

“ What do ya think I’m trying ta do?!!” snapped his sis pounding her brain for ideas

“ Heero stop the battle!!!” pleaded duo desperately, Heero however wasn’t listening her

put his foot down and accelerated, baring down on the black gundam faster

 

“ He wants to kill me!!” whispered lese as she tightened her harness and seized the

controls one last time. Duo’s heart chilled…Heero was a killer but..but..He

wouldn’t!!…would he?

 

“ Why would he?!” duo called back desperately. Lese gritted her teeth as pain burned in

her shoulder, she pulled the scythe round and smashed the visual sensors on zero before

throwing her gundam flat, narrowly missing being smashed by the larger gundam.

“ Celeste ask him to stop!!” pleaded Quatre, this was getting extremely out of hand and

the young blonde was becoming greatly distressed “ Heero please!!” he added trying to

calm the perfect solider.

 

“ Ok ok stop!!” lese panted, her grip slipping, as the Joyce stick was now slick with

her sweat. Zero returned to its gundam mode and stood before the damaged death scythe.

The Japanese boy prepared for the final shot, his cobalt eyes locked with Lese’s violet

ones on the monitor

 

“ Now it’s over,” he grunted, the beam cannon unleashing another blast from the battered

zero. Duo sister shut her eyes

 

“ Oh god” she whispered and prepared to die, the cannon hit…. meters from where she was,

Heero had deliberately missed

 

“ LESE!!” duo yelled racing over to his gundam and opening the hatch, lese let out a

sigh and leaned her head back in the seat, removing her hands from death scythes console

and running them through her hair.

 

“ Are ya ok?” duo asked worriedly helping her out of the harness and onto the ground,

she half smiled and replied in a shaky voice

“ Humbled but yeah I guess I’ll live sorry ta disappoint ya, ya wont be getting my

desert at dinner” she then winced rubbing her shoulder and half leaned against duo who

now let rip with a one of those brotherly lectures

 

“ …What were ya thinking?!! Do ya want to get ya self killed?!! Are you trying to give

me grey hair?!! Do you think I like seeing my sis nearly blasted ta bits when I only had

her back a few days?!! And look what ya did to my gundam! Howard’s gonna kill me!!

Couldn’t ya have run away!! Ya a Maxwell!! We run and hide very well!”  At this point

lese just decide to zone out and let him rant

 

“ I told ya ya weren’t ready! But would you listen?…noooooo!!! Ya more stubborn than

Wuffie! Ya..Ya like Wuffie’s sis! And ya are never going in a gundam again!! Ya hear

me?!! Never!! Ya can’t handle it!!” he continued, by now lese had that glazed “ uh huh

that’s nice whatever” look

 

“ Actually she did very well duo, she handled death scythe well and defended herself far

better than the oz pilots we’ve run up against” chimed in Quatre joining duo and lese

with Trowa in tow. He quickly shrank back however at the “ shut up q!!” look duo shot

him, lese just grinned at her bro

 

“ See I told ya” she giggled her eyes locked on the disappearing wufei, he had taken the

opportunity of duo’s rant to escape. “ That’s odd” thought lese “ what was he doing

here?”

 

“ See I told ya” she smirked triumphantly, duo looked really ticked

“..I. Suppose….BUT if He-chan hadn’t purposefully missed ya’d be dead by now” he added

hauling her towards the house

“ I didn’t know we were meant ta be going all out” muttered lese still looking round for

wu…not like she cared what wu was doing of course just checking is all.

“ Yeah he chan can be a lil harsh” duo replied sitting her down on the steps as Quatre

fussed round her shoulder. Lese looked across at Heero who was now getting out of zero “

I guess………YA DON’T LIKE ME MUCH DO YA HEERO?” she yelled at the wing pilot. Heero just

smirked and walked off towards the hanger

 

“ Heh I’ll take that as a no…oowwwie Q that hurts!!”
“ Sorry Celeste but it’s got to be fixed “ apologised Quatre strapping her shoulder, duo

put a comforting hand on Lese’s shoulder

 

“ Ahhh he-chan will get used to ya…dun worry sis ya like me who wouldn’t like ya” he

grinned, Trowa just rolled his eyes and continued trying to help Quatre strap up Lese’s

shoulder while she wriggled around

 

“ Yeah I guess…. hey duo?” duo turned round exasperated

“ Yeah what n…” he was cut off as a snowball slapped him straight in the face, followed

by lese balling up in a giggling heap on the ground. Trowa and Quatre decided to give up

strapping lese, fun was a much better medicine anyway and watching the Maxwell twins go

to war seemed like a good way to spend the rest of the day.