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"Alternative Directions: Options "Written By: Karina Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or the lovely
boys and their girls in the series. Wish I did. Please don't sue me.
I haven't even got a brass razoo to give you. Rating: Deffinately PG in Australia, at the moment,
but probably safer to say R for later chapters. Not sure about international
ratings Warnings: It will be 6x2, even though it does
not start out that way. After all, Zechs and Duo never met in Gundam
Wing and only spoke briefly over a com line in Endless Waltz. I've
tried to keep them in character as I saw them in the series. A bit
of language creeping in under stressful conditions. Pairings: eventual 6x2, past 2xH, 2+H,6x9, 1+R
Summary: Directions is set post Endless Waltz
and roughly 2 years have passed. Zechs and Noin are on Mars and Duo,
after spending some time with Hilde in a relationship leaves L2 to
join Preventers. Hilde was not happy about his decision. I guess enough
said. Here t'is, and I hope you like it. This is also AU for the standard
setting, as well as the series and Endless Waltz. Spoilers: Gundam Wing Series and Endless Waltz Many thanks to Dulin for volunteering to beta this. //... // thoughts
"Alternative Directions: Options"
Earth: New York U.S.A Date Feb 19th AC 198 Time: 16:35 Duo //Kushrenada. Heinrich Alphonso Kristian. Kushrenada nee Catalonia. Anna Kristabel. Kiev. Yes, that’s got to be the parents of Treize Kushrenada. Wow. Infertility treatment. Red flagged. Okay, got to be getting somewhere here. Now, let’s follow the red flag. Damn. Password required. Okay, let’s fire up the old cracker and do some hacking here. Won’t take long if I’m lucky. Some of these files are not so heavily coded.// Late afternoon sunlight streamed into the small lounge of the apartment in New York. The latest assignment from the Preventers had enabled him to change location without arousing suspicion. He had been careful in those last few days in Sanc, but he could detect no activity that seemed out of the ordinary. He had notified his land lady that he would not be returning and paid out his lease. Really, when he thought about it, he was not really in Sanc long enough at any one time to warrant a permanent residence. The one thing that did disturb him was the arrival that morning at his apartment of one Heero Yuy. What had Heero been doing there? When he had delivered his report to the offices later that day he had tried to discover what Heero might have wanted him for. Nothing. Unfortunately his sometimes partner had left for an assignment hours before. He would have to wait. Or hack the files to find out Heero’s latest assignment. He had decided he could do without that knowledge for now. It seemed harmless enough and he had made a New Years resolution to try to not be so paranoid this year. Not so easy to do when he now knew that Romefeller still existed. Then he had been reassigned. As it turned out he had enjoyed the assignment. He had needed a diversion from the mundane day to day living with his paranoia. It served to get his mind off matters he had no time to investigate. Assignments meant he was free of his watch dog until he reported back to Earth the success of his mission. The assignment now completed he was due to return to New Port City in Sanc the next day. He had this night to delve deeper into the hidden files he had uncovered from the Romefeller Foundation’s pet project. He was packed and ready to go and his flight scheduled to leave at six a.m. He could sleep in-flight to Sanc. Time to learn more. It was none of his business, but his curiosity had never been easy to ignore, and he was far from inclined to change that habit. Listening to his instincts had kept him alive to date. His instincts said he needed to delve deeper into these files. //Come on, come on. What’s taking so long? It’s only a simple password… Yes! That’s more like it. Ah, crap. More encrypted files. Sheesh, I’m getting fed up with having to go through this shit every time I access the data base. At least the hound hasn’t shown up again. If it’s out there still its chasing my decoys. Now, which disk had Heero’s program for decryption… Yep, that’s the one. I’ll have to see if he has updated any of these when I get back. Coffee break while it works.// The kitchenette of his rented apartment was hideous in white and cream with dark blue checked curtains over a window that likely had not been washed for years. At the moment it was also cluttered with dirty pots and pans and take out cartons of Chinese food and pizza boxes. Glancing around Duo winced. Somewhere under all of that there should be a cup and some spoons. With a resigned sigh he began to gather up the evidence of his diet during this assignment. He had also made a New Years resolution to clean up his eating habits. Well, he would just have to work on that one. He did, just this morning, buy the makings for a great sandwich. Having discovered that yes, there was a bench under all that junk, he set coffee to brew and set about making the best sandwich in the world. He firmly believed that you could buy some really good sandwiches, but the absolute best was one you lovingly laboured over yourself. You were thus guaranteed to get just as much of everything in it as you wanted. It was also healthy food and that sort of fitted in with his New Years resolution. He had completed the delicate work of crafting the world’s greatest sandwich, and poured himself the complimentary best coffee in the world, when a series of beeps from the lounge room announced the completion of the decryption program. Grabbing his drink and food Duo settled in front of the lap top. “Yes. A not so hard one for a change. Sometimes life is extremely good.” //File 21154638. Subjects 118675K series, Kushrenada, Heinrich Alphonso Kristian and 126574K series, Kushrenada nee Catalonia, Anna Kristabell. Ages, dates of birth, general health. Blah, blah, blah. Ah. What’s this? Conception 15th February AC 170. G.M. for KPsi series within safety parameters and implantation completed of three viable embryo’s.// “Mmm. G.M.? K series. I need a translator. There’s that KPsi again. What does it mean? Has to be a link between Kushrenada and Zechs then. Before they were born. Hell, this is five or six years before Zechs was born. Wait a minute. G. M. Gene Manipulation?” Duo bit into his sandwich, considering the implications. “Test tube baby. Petrie dish conception and Romefeller playing God? Need to know more.” //Follow up report. One fetus confirmed. General health of mother, good. No indications of abnormalities in examination of in vitro infant. Sex confirmed as male. A lot of follow up exams. They were keeping a close eye on the mother, that’s for sure. Uhm, yes. Birth took place on the 20th November AC 170. General stats. They did an EEG? On a new born baby? What were they expecting? File link after that to file 138957KPsi. If I go there… Yep. One Kushrenada. Treize Kristian Hansel. Brought into the New Generation Corporation for a physical every six months for the first five years then reports from observers. Every time he was brought into the center he was given an EEG. Link to - Oh ho. Oz Medical records. Romefeller kept a close eye on Kushrenada. A very close eye. Why the EEG’s?// Duo sat back and considered the laptop for a long while, alternately sipping coffee and munching on his sandwich. “Genetic Manipulation. Has happened before. Hell, that’s how I got into this mess. We raided a Romefeller Research Laboratory and they were working on gene research for the perfect soldiers. So what was this- forerunner for that? Genetic research. Mmm.” In the days before the founding of the Oz Specials within the Alliance Treize Kushrenada had been the elite of the Alliance Mobile Suit pilots. He had been the Ace before the arrival of Lucrezia Noin and Zechs Marquise. Those three, Kushrenada, Noin and Marquise had been at the top of the performance rankings. Coincidence? He would have to check on the others. Was Noin somewhere in these files? He had to learn more. //Okay, lets see if there are any similarities with the Peacecrafts. Back up a bit and enter Peacecraft. Yeah. There we go. File 362114621. Subjects 116251K series, Peacecraft. Stephan Charles Thor Edwardo and 186431K series Peacecraft nee Wayridge. Katerina Elizaria Letitia Marianna. Ages-gees I never realized King Peacecraft was so much older than his wife. Dates of birth. General health, good but a red flag on the fertility of the king. Man, they really wanted kids bad. Six attempts over three years failed and they kept coming back. Conception took place on March 3rd AC 176. G.M. for KPsiWP series within safety parameters and implantation completed of two viable embryo’s. Follow up reports on visits to the fertility clinic by the Queen. One confirmed fetus. File link to 839471KPsiWP series. DOB 25th December AC 176. What’s this …The King and Queen returned for a second child and the Queen was discovered to be pregnant on initial examination. That makes Relena naturally conceived. Yep. There’s the number I found referring to a sibling before. 839561N. Makes sense, considering the difference in their identification numbers.// A quick tapping at the keyboard. “Punch up Relena just to confirm it. Yeah. Birth: Female delivered Sanc Memorial, Port City, Sanc, 13th March AC 180.” Duo sat back on the couch, frowning. //Relena was born at Sanc Memorial? No entries here about a visit to the clinic after six months from the Queens initial visit. Just general listing of good health and general blood tests which are standard. Basic statistics taken from Sanc Memorial Medical Records Department.// “Mmm. They have Relena’s birth details and records for the first six months. Not much else. Not a lot of detail there. Almost as though they were not interested, beyond recording her existence. I need to pursue that. Find out how much interest they do have in her. This file is marked as active and there are some links here, I’ll pursue that later. They probably were not overly interested in her then, just enough to mark her in their stud book until she is old enough for them to start playing god with the next generation. They would sit up and take notice if they want to continue the Peacecraft bloodlines. Okay, Milliardo, lets have a little peek at what they have listed for you, shall we?” Beep. “Well damn. Why is his locked and Relena’s not?” Duo gave a disgusted grunt. “Fine, send the hacker back in.” An impatient wait ensued until another beep sounded. “Good.” Sudden visions of blood and dust and dirt assailed him and Duo fought to keep the tide at bay. Not now. No, he would not give in. He had seen too much of that scene since it had happened. Another of his resolutions for the new year had been that he would not allow himself to dwell on the past. He had lost family repeatedly. He would not wallow in it. Not his, or another’s. It was a brave new world. A world of peace. He could forget now. He could let go of the anger and move on. He could and would move on to better things. A series of beeps pulled him from the brink of falling into those visions of another time and place, and Duo quickly locked down the lap top and pulled out the vid link. He would not chance anyone glimpsing what he was working on. “Reaper.” The face on the screen was of a young man, dark haired and known to Duo. His assigned contact with the Preventers this assignment. “Early recall. Earth wants you here ASAP.” “On my way. Reaper out.” //Now what?// Duo glanced at the laptop and sighed. Not today, it seemed. “Man, Mill, you and I have a date, but it will have to wait. If it’s ASAP guess no one can complain if I commandeer a shuttle. God, I love pulling weight.’
EEG = Electro-encephalo-gram A readout of the electrical activity of the brain.
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