Summary: The senshi are attacked and captured for unclear reasons, all except for one by chance. Ami must go to the dimension her friends were taken to and track them down through a job at the Preventers headquarters on Earth, never knowing the enemies true intent. Here, she must deal with the inquisitive and suspicious Pilots, particularly the one who happens to be her neighbour. Ami/Heero pairing.

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Hey, I hope you all enjoy this new fic, I got the idea and just had to write it.

Part 1

The general manager showed her, the new secretary, her desk. She was explaining to her how she would be filing the documentation on every issue that the Preventers were looking into or addressing.

The new girl seemed sharp, very knowledgeable with computers and quick to pick up on what she was saying. This only made the manager more confident as she headed back to her office, glancing back down at the paperwork she had been given to remember the girl's name.

Ami Mizuno.

Ami sat at her desk, which was among about four others in the room, and smiled in greeting at the other secretaries who all introduced themselves. She hoped that she was putting on a convincing act, but really couldn't be sure from how empty she felt.

The blonde to her right, Stacey, rattled on about the floor they worked on. "This is the most important floor after all. We take care of filing every single issue that the Preventers even just look at, which is why confidentiality is so important. Best of all, we have an added perk on this floor!"

Ami looked up at her, the girl having caught her interest. "A perk?"

Another secretary giggled, Laura, and approached. "She's right. The best and most trusted Preventers work on this floor. Their offices are just down the hall. They take coffee breaks, right there, and even eat lunch there." Laura pointed at the coffee machine at the corner and the lunch tables next to it. Ami was severely unimpressed, frowning at the mentioned objects and turning to look back at the girls.

"I don't mean to be blunt....but why do you care where anyone drinks coffee or eats lunch?"

The other two secretaries who had yet to speak approached, smiling secretively.

"The Gundam Pilots work on this floor!" One of them, Layanna, gushed. Ami nodded, unimpressed. She had read about the retired pilots, now Preventers, from the information she had been given when coming to this dimension. It wasn't that the pilots and everything they had done for the earth and colonies were unimpressive. On the contrary, the pilots deserved a lot of credit and respect. Ami just didn't get why worshipping where the men drank coffee or at lunch mattered.

"So?"

"So they're all totally hot!" The final one said as if it were obvious. Ami nodded blankly, speaking and smiling in hopes of satiating the girls and getting down to the reason she was here.

"Well girls, we shall have to see."

The girls all giggled in response, Ami smirking slightly as everyone sat down at their desks and got to work. Ami's mind immediately flew to her friends, feeling a headache coming on.

"My turn," Usagi screamed, fighting over the microphone with Minako.

"Mits off! You practically just sang, anyways this is so my song!" Minako said loudly, shoving Usagi away and into the arms of Mamoru as she cleared her throat.

"Abc! Easy as 123! Easy as Do Re Me!"

Ami, Rei, Usagi, and Mamoru were gathered at Minako and Makoto's apartment. Minako had purchased a karaoke game, and the group had been playing for the last two hours.

Usagi groaned, whispering to Mamoru how upset she was. Mamoru ignored her antics, reminding her that she had sang a lot more than any of the other girls as he rubbed her shoulders soothingly.

Makoto rolled her eyes, exchanging a look with Rei as she set a fresh batch of cookies on the table. "Well, dig in ladies. Oh, and Mamoru."

"Thanks Mako," Ami said, grabbing a cookie before Usagi inhaled them. Rei got the idea, also coming and grabbing a couple as she eyed Minako's score.

"Mina, I thought you were a good singer, you're not doing so hot."

"Well excuse me for having a voice so beautiful that it is too high in pitch for the machine to read and score," Minako said, flipping her hair over her shoulder dramatically at Rei's comment and then winking at Ami.

A crashing sound that was much louder than the music from the game tore through the house, and everyone froze.

"What was tha-mmmfff," Makoto's voice was muffled as a large hand covered her mouth, another grabbing her around the waist and pinning her arms to her side. A soft but commanding voice floated into the room.

"Listen Senshi, no one gets hurt as long as you cooperate."

"Who are you?" Rei shouted.

"No questions please," a voice said again, and all hell broke lose as several more youma entered the apartment and charged before anyone could transform. It all happened so fast.

Ami didn't know how long it took, but she and her friends were soon being gagged and dragged out of the apartment, the battle ending before it began. In the corner and restrained, she watched with wide eyes as one by one her friends were taken out of the apartment. One of the remaining youma began to bark a command.

"Get the last one, hurry before-"

"Pluto deadly scream!" The youma pinning her down ran but was obliterated.

The remaining youma disappeared quickly, leaving Ami lying on the floor in the trashed but empty apartment, save for the woman who approached her. Ami tried to get to her feet, looking up at Sailor Pluto with disbelief. Her voice was shaky as she spoke.

"Where are they?"

Sailor Pluto stared down at her, looking incredibly troubled, as she crouched next to her and spoke.

"They're gone. The enemy, whoever the enemy is, has taken them to another dimension. I don't know why and I only wish I had been here a few moments before to save everyone else."

"What about the outers?"

Pluto kept her voice even, but Ami knew she was worried.

"The other three were taken only a few minutes before."

"What do we do Setsuna? Go get them from the other dimension? We have to hurry!"

Sailor Pluto shook her head. "I- I don't know where they are over there. Come with me to the gates of time, I have an idea. There's just one issue- I know you're not well...."

"I'm fine, I'll do anything," Ami insisted, Pluto nodding.

Even with how reasonable Pluto's idea was, this one had a few problems. Pluto, or Setsuna, had work to do in the gates of time. She really couldn't leave for more than a few hours at a time, and only in dire circumstances.

Plus, they had no idea where their friends had been taken or for what purpose. Setsuna only knew that the enemy had ties with some organization committing crimes in this dimension. So the only way for them to find the organization that the enemy was hiding within was for Ami to search through every organization the Preventers had investigated in the last year. She only had access to these documents through a job there, so Setsuna had managed to rig it so she got her a job before returning to the gates of time and urging Ami to be quick. The whole ordeal had been a whirlwind and Ami was still trying to collect herself and do the task that was asked of her.

Setsuna had been positive that the enemy hadn't killed the Senshi, but why had they captured everyone in the first place? How had they even known their identities? Ami placed her head in her hands, lightly rubbing her temples. She needed her friends back. She felt lost without them, and now she was in this strange place all alone trying to simply find them. Her mini-computer was useless here unless she was within one hundred feet of the Senshi and communicators didn't work. It was all around bad news.

To make things worse, Ami had been constantly sick for the last little while. It was not technically a sickness, but the day to freeze the Earth in her dimension would be in a year as she was twenty three right now, and for that to happen Ami would have to do it all herself. So her powers were steadily and slowly increasing, not in battle or in any actually effective way for her to save her friends now, but rather building within her. This process however, which would give her the strength to freeze the entire Earth and all its inhabitants for centuries, was painful for her as her body would have to handle all of this power somehow, which was why it had to happen slowly. Every time her power increased only slightly within her, she would get horribly sick, go through excruciating pain, or pass out. Her friends had all been helping her work through it before they were captured, always watching over her, but now she was on her own and her sicknesses were daily and only increasing in intensity every day that came closer to the next year. Her poor friends....she blinked back tears at the thought. She hoped that the enemy wasn't hurting them at all. But why did they want them to begin with?

It was all just too much. She pushed herself to get down to work and start filing, knowing she had no time to waste. Immersing herself in the paperwork, she quickly did her job while carefully inspecting every document. It was their job to look the documents over, so no one noticed anything out of the ordinary as Ami searched the papers for any signs of their enemy in the reports, anything unexplainable or involving energy drainings or unexplained deaths.

Two out of the next three hours that Ami worked diligently, the sound of the other secretaries chit chatting filled the room.

Ami meanwhile had seen nothing in the documents so far, although she and Setsuna had predicted it might take weeks. She didn't see the Gundam Pilots that day, the girls whispering disappointedly that they might be on a mission.

She took a cab to the apartment Setsuna had paid first and last months rent on, accompanied with the joke that she would hopefully not need to exceed a month and would have found her friends.

Already not feeling well from what she was positive was another slight power increase, she shakily searched her bag for her keys as got into the elevator and pushed the button for the fifth floor. A man ushered for her to hold the elevator and she did so, him nodding at her as he entered.

Heero reached for the fifth floor button and saw that whoever was in the elevator had already pushed it. A new neighbour? He glanced down at the petite woman, with striking blue hair and eyes the same color. She was pretty, he decided, although he hadn't gotten a decent look at her since she was so preoccupied.

She was not paying attention to him as her hands fumbled in her bag for her keys. Finally finding the key, she pulled it out and despite how awful she was feeling, couldn't stop the victorious smile from taking over her face. Heero couldn't help but smirk from next to her, and she blushed lightly but otherwise kept quiet. This however gave him a better look at her lovely face, and he was positive that she was new as he had never seen her before. His smirk widened as he thought about how Duo would flip that he had even made the observation as he hadn't paid much attention to women since he and Relena had broken up. Heero saw the dial on the elevator hit five, his attention moving to the woman's trembling hand that gripped the key. Was she nervous or something? Why was she shaking?

Feeling the pain from the poison double almost instantly, she was more than happy once the elevator reached the fifth floor and the doors opened. She exited the elevator and walked down the hall until she located her door, noticing that the guy she had ridden with had his apartment right next door but in too much pain to care.

The pain continued to eat at her as her hand, now shaking violently, struggled with the simple task of getting the key in the door so she could get inside. She was sure she was about to have an attack from the power increase but tried to focus all of her attention on the key, knowing she had limited time before something happened to her and she wound up unconscious outside her apartment door.

Heero didn't let himself into his apartment right away, watching with a frown as the girl's hands shook violently, her body beginning to shake as well. She was silent, the only sound she was making coming from her erratic breathing as that seemed to be strained.

"Are you alright?" He asked, approaching her. Her hand, which had finally gotten the key into the door, slipped from it as she suddenly collapsed to the floor. Heero frowned deeper as he crouched next to her, turning her over and feeling for her pulse at her neck. Her breathing had steadied and she was no longer shaking, completely limp. Her pulse seemed a bit fast but was steadily slowing to normal as well. She seemed perfectly fine, her face giving the impression that she was simply sleeping had he not seen her pass out. He slapped her face very lightly but she didn't move.

He glanced up at her key, still sitting in the lock, and debated. It would be too easy to set her down inside her apartment, and there was nothing wrong with her to indicate that she needed a hospital. It was possible that she just hadn't eaten enough or had low iron or something. Then again, if he left her in her apartment alone and unsupervised and she went into cardiac arrest or ended up being epileptic and had a seizure or something, that would be entirely his fault. No, the only logical thing to do was to set her down on the couch in his apartment just to make sure nothing happened to her while she was alone, and she would surely awaken soon and be able to head into her apartment herself.

Nodding to himself that it was the right decision, he moved to pick her small form off of the ground but stopped when she shifted, her bright blue eyes opening and meeting his.

"Are you okay?" He asked immediately. Ami quickly took in her surroundings, well aware that she had just passed out in the hall and that her neighbour from the elevator was trying to help her. How embarrassing. She blushed lightly, nodding and moving to sit up. He reached a hand to help her, standing with her and nodding at her.

"What happened?" He asked. His voice was almost monotonous, yet she sensed that he usually spoke that way. Avoiding his piercing yet alluring gaze, Ami spoke.

"I'm sorry. I have low iron," she lied, finally meeting his gaze now that she had an excuse.

He nodded. "Hn. I thought as much."

He sure wasn't a man of many words. Still, he had tried to help.

"Thank you for checking on me though. I'm Ami Mizuno," she reached out to shake his hand, and he grasped it firmly.

"Heero Yuy," he said simply, turning and heading back towards his apartment.

Ami quickly let herself into the apartment she had never been in, flicking on the lights and locking her door. Her neighbour, Heero, unnerved her. Trying to brush their short meeting, if that was the proper term, from her mind, she focused on finding everything in her apartment and getting dinner, aware that she hadn't eaten since before her battle with the Senshi.

Heero meanwhile entered his apartment and headed into the kitchen, flicking on the lights and beginning to make dinner. The girl, Ami, was friendly and polite but clearly shy. Still, something about her was different. He couldn't place his finger on it, but he sensed there was more to her than met the eye, more beyond her pretty and fragile exterior. He ignored his prior thought on her looks, moving on. What could it possibly be though? Well, for starters, the apartment she had just moved into had been occupied by a young couple with two children who were obnoxiously screaming loudly. While their absence didn't bother him, it did make him wonder how they had possibly moved out so fast. After all, he had just spoken with the man living there two days before, and the man had been discussing with Heero how the apartment they lived in was a good investment because it would be worth a lot more in a couple of years. Why then, would they move now? Plus, they had only been residing there about three months. Why leave so fast? Heero didn't even remember seeing a moving truck or any kind of commotion. He frowned. Perhaps it would be a good idea to keep an eye on her for a few days, just to be sure. That reason, and sheer curiosity.

The next day, Ami awoke bright and early, ready to head into work and find some information. She quickly dressed in a pair of grey dress pants and pale blue button up blouse, slipping on a pair of kitten heels and putting on her usual necklace, already wearing her earrings. There had already been clothing in the entirely furnished apartment Setsuna had arranged before heading back to the gates of time. Ami didn't know how she did it but the woman was a miracle worker.

She had called for a cab a few minutes before, so she headed down to the lobby and exited when she saw the cab pull up. She was at her work quickly enough, entering and waving at the receptionist before heading to her floor.

The secretaries she had been acquainted with the previous day greeted her warmly, and as Ami set her purse on her desk she was surprised to see her neighbour, Heero, standing by the coffee machine conversing with another man with a long braid. Catching her eye, he nodded at her, Ami smiling as she sat down at her desk. The man he was with began to talk more excitedly now, although Heero glared at him.

A couple of the secretaries leaned over their desks to talk in hushed voices with her.

"How do you know Heero Yuy?"

"Heero? He's my neighbour. Why?"

"Why?" Another gushed, quieting herself. "Because he is one of the five ex-Gundam pilots we were telling you about! Isn't he handsome? I swear to you I swoon when I see him. And that other man, he's Duo Maxwell, another pilot."

Ami nodded, letting the information sink in. She hadn't been overly impressed when she had first learned that the Gundam Pilots were Preventers working with her, but having one of them living next door also seemed to add to the intrigue on the five. Everyone here respected them for obvious reasons. They were clearly talented and heroes, worth respecting. The women on the floor and in the building also seemed to swoon, also for obvious reasons.

Before she could get down to work, she heard a slight commotion behind her as the braided man, Duo Maxwell as the girls had said, tried to forcefully drag Heero towards her. She could hear him saying something along the lines of "introduce me" but she wasn't positive. Duo smiled brilliantly at her when she turned, and she couldn't help but return the smile.

"Hi babe, name's Duo Maxwell. I understand you and Heero here are neighbours and I just had to introduce myself."

At his words, Heero simply glared down at him, turning a slightly softer gaze to Ami as she spoke.

"It's nice to meet you, I'm Ami Mizuno."

"The pleasure is all mine babe," Duo replied, grabbing the hand Ami had intended for him to shake and kissing it. She blushed, drawing her hand back, as a blonde man with light blue eyes approached the group with a tall man with a long bang and green eyes and a Chinese man with an angry look on his face.

"What's got you so excited this morning Duo? Oh, hello," he said, laughing humbly and extending his hand. "My apologies, I'm Quatre Winner."

"Ami Mizuno," she said smiling at him and shaking his hand, ignoring Duo's "hot secretary" comment.

"This is Trowa Barton and Wufei Chang," Quatre continued, also unfazed by Duo as Ami nodded politely at the two.

From behind her, the other four secretaries watched like hawks Ami was sure. She was positive they had all been introduced, all working in such close proximity with each other, and Duo joked and flirted lightly with some of them but didn't take the conversation beyond there.

The Pilots headed back to work, Ami knowing she had to do the same and detesting the interruption as she dove into her work and tuned out the rest of the office for a while.

She worked diligently until lunchtime. One of the girls headed down to the cafeteria and got sandwiches for everyone, so she was able to only take a few minutes for lunch and then get back to work. As of yet the morning had been unsuccessful. She had found the name of one group that had slightly peaked her interest, the Dark Alliance, and so she had scribbled it down in the notebook she kept in her purse, but there wasn't anymore information on them and that left her with no choice but to play the waiting game as she filed more papers and searched for more clues on other groups.

Her day came to an end before she knew it, one of the secretaries shaking her shoulder and telling her it was time to clock out. Ami decided that the most she could do tonight was search that group name online, and she did so, however online sources ended up proving worse than her Preventers reports of course.

Hope you liked this first chapter, I promise it gets better.