Chapter seventeen: I don’t own Gundam Wing. I don’t own DBZ either. I don’t own anything from Escaflowne, Pizza Hut, or whatever else you might think I might own.

 

Chapter seventeen: Rules for time travel

 

“Whoah! Is this the future?” Duo asked as he stepped out of the car.

 

“No, Baka it’s a church!” Wufei said.

 

“Come.” Said Dr J, “There’s no time to waste. You must begin to train now.”

 

“In what?” asked Wufei.

 

“In these!” Dr. J said smiling as he uncovered the Gundams.

 

“Hey!” Duo exclaimed, “It’s Deathscythe!”

 

“Actually,” Dr. J said, “the old Deathscythe blew up. This one is new and improved. Along with the rest of these gundams. They have the zero systems installed in them already. Hop in.”

 

“Wait!” shouted Quatre. “Just jump into the zero  system! Are you crazy?!”

 

“It’s fine.” Dr. J explained. “Like I said, they have been specially made to adjust to the pilot. Besides, the Gundams aren’t running right now. Just in case someone can’t handle the system.”

 

“Understood.” Heero said.

 

The pilots stayed in the Gundams for hours. The Zero system slowly upgraded with them. Still, the gundam pilots couldn’t be at ease. After all, they had to fight their own kids and didn’t know how it would turn out. About 9:00 P.M. the pilots got out.

 

“I hate this system!” Duo said angrily, “All sorts of futures and paths to take! I can’t take much more.”

 

“Calm down.” Heero said. “You’ll get used to it. Come on. Let’s go inside.” Heero said as they left the church and headed towards the girls’ home.

 

“It’s so silent without Michael running around here with no towel on.” Hilde said.

 

“Or my Mingh Loh calling Dominic a weak Otoko…” Mae Linh said.

 

“I know.” Wufei replied. “I never even met you Onna, so why were you chosen to be the mother of my child? Where does you last name come from, too?”

 

Mingh Loh replied. “A friend needed my help on Earth, so I wasn’t killed with the rest of our clan. The doctors must have found me, and thought I’d fit. As for my name…Wufei you really don’t remember me?”

 

“Should I?” asked Wufei.

Mae Linh giggled. “Nevermind. You’ll remember one day.”

 

Heero looked at the women slowly. He didn’t know how to make what he had to say sound comforting. “The best way to beat your enemy is to to know your enemy.”

 

“What?” Relena looked startled.

 

Heero responded. “Pictures, photographs, toys, shows, anything you can give us.”

 

Relena wasn’t pleased with how he phrased it, but followed his order anyhow. “Follow me.” She said as she took the pilots down towards the children’s room.

 

“Hey!” Duo said. “That’s a pretty cool poster.”

 

“All the kids love that show.” Catherine said. “It’s called DBZ.”

 

“I thought that was a style of fighting?” Trowa asked.

 

“You’ll see.” Said Catherine.

 

Hilde opened the door. “Look around and watch what you want, but don’t leave their room a mess.” Hilde insisted. The mothers walked off as the guys looked around. They saw tons of DBZ merchandise along with lego’s, playdoh, books, crayons, paper pads, a teddy bear, musical instruments,  three bunk beds, etc.

 

“Dominics Book of Poetry,” Quatre said as he thumbed through the pages.

 

Trowa picked up a flute that layed on Jimmy’s bed and started playing it. Heero stared at the teddy bear, and then looked at the kids drawings.

 

“Is that a lion and a lamb laying together?” Quatre asked as he glanced over Heero’s shoulder at the drawing.

 

“Hey! I see why they DBZ fight now!” Duo excaimed as he listened to DBZ’s soundtrack and flipped through Michael’s comics.

 

Even something interesting caught Wufei’s eye. Hanging over Mingh Loh’s bed was a huge poster. Wufei read, “ 1,001 reasons why Otoko’s are weak and Onna’s are strong.” He became interested and started reading down the poster.

 

Relena knocked on the door then walked in. “Are you done getting to ‘know your enemy’ Heero?” Relena asked sternly.

“Yeah.” He replied.

 

The gundam pilots were given guest beds to sleep in. Dr. J had to sleep on the couch. The girls went  to their bedrooms and eventually went to sleep.

 

“OH!” cried Michael, “GET ME OUT! I WANT OUT!!”

 

“ME,TOO!” yelled Dominic, “ME TOO, ME TOO!”

 

“AHHH!” cried Mingh Loh. “I AM A VERY WEAK ONNA! MOMMY!!!!”

 

“Stop it…” Jimmy groaned.

 

Even Heero was having a hard time with the zero system now. He gritted his teeth and prayed everything would be over soon.

 

“That’s the level.” Professor G grinned. “Let them out.”

 

The kids plopped out of the gundams after the zero system was shut off. Dr. S grinned, “Finally, those kids felt some pain. Now we-Hey! Where’d the mother’s go?!”

 

After saying that the other scientists looked around. The chairs and straps were still there, but no one was in them.

 

“Oh damn!” Professor G.’s voice became softer. “No matter. The kids are going to be under our control now.”

 

20 days later in the present…

 

“Well, do we have to go now!” whined Duo. “I still don’t have the zero system down to a ‘T’. Couldn’t we go back later? I mean, it’s a time machine for crying out loud!”

 

“I didn’t create my time machines like that!” Dr. J yelled. “After a time machine is used once, it will coincide with time in the past and present!”

 

“What?” Duo asked confused.

 

“It means,” Dr. J explained, “that if you go into the time machine, say, on Valentine’s day in A.C. 190, came back to the present, decided to go in the machine the next day to 195’s St. Patrick’s day , you would find yourself back in 190 on February 15^th. Understand.”

 

“No,” said Duo, “Why would you go back for St. Patrick’s day?”

 

“That’s beside the point!” Dr. J shouted.

 

“Alright, well…” began Duo, “What if we took another time machine later?”

 

“Look!” said Dr. J. “There are two rules for time travel! #1 is choosing your destination only one time and #2 is that the past will indefinitely change the future!”

 

“So, what you’re saying is…” began Duo, “that if we don’t get back to the coinciding past time when the change occurs, the future will change and we’ll all be screwed?”

 

“Yes.” Said Dr. J.

 

“Good enough for me,” said Duo, “let’s go!”

 

20 days later in the past…

 

“What is your mission Michael Schbeiker?” asked Professor G.

 

“To eliminate the asteroid.” Michael replied.

”Correct.” Said Professor G. “Heero Peacecraft, what do you do if your confronted by an enemy?”

 

“Eliminate all obstacles.” Heero said dryly.

 

“They are ready.” Announced Professor G. The scientists opened the roof of their secret laboratory compound, and the Gundams flew out.

 

“Their father’s don’t have a prayer.” Professor G stated.

 

Unknown to the scientists though, was the fact that Heero’s daughter Rei was just around the corner listening intently to the scientists.

 

“Hn.” She said. “I must go.”

 

Back to the pilots…

 

The gundam pilots arrived in the blue car 12 blocks away from their hangar.

 

“Who programmed this stupid thing!” Wufei complained. The pilots ran toward the hangar where Dr. J and the women stood.

 

“What took you.” Hilde said smiling.

 

“You brought the Gundams?!” Duo said shocked.

 

“Duh. What, did you think you’d fight in your old ones?” Hilde said.

 

“How?” Quatre asked.

 

“Questions. Questions. Is that all I ever get?!” Dr. J shouted. “Fine. A person or thing simply has to be touching the machine, they don’t have to be in it.”

 

“Oh!” said Duo. “That’d explain those holes the time machines kept leaving in the ground.”

 

“Will you hurry up already!” Dorothy yelled. Just then, something caught their attention. A little girl with piercing green eyes was standing in front of them.

 

“Rei!” Relena shouted as she scooped her up. “Where’s your brother, honey? Is he with you?”

 

“No.” Rei replied. “I escaped. He did not.”

 

“Are you okay?” Relena asked nervously.

 

“Fine.” Rei replied “The other’s aren’t though.”

 

Just then the pilots heard some mobile suits flying over them.

 

“It’s them.” Heero said.