::I do not Own Gundam Wing::

A/N: The specs on the mobile suits are messed up, but to keep in ordnance with Gundam Wing my specs will be based off of theirs – so messed up in other words -.-

The Year as After Colony 201 – 6 years after the Eve Wars.

Chapter 5:

Z – sixteen point three meters tall, seven point one metric tons. Sensors mounted in head two hundred meter radius. Vulcan guns mounted in head three hundred rounds each. Beam saber with recharge rack in right arm wrist, free range floating mines with remote reactor, beam gun with twenty round charges.

O – sixteen point five meters tall, seven point metric tons. Sensors mounted in head two hundred meter radius. Vulcan guns mounted in head, three hundred rounds each. Beam Gatling gun three hundred round charge, three charge packs, mounted on right arm, twenty missile launcher pods, times two in chest with three rounds of homing missiles. Beam saber and recharge rack mounted on back.

P – sixteen meters tall, six point eight metric tons. Sensors mounted in head two hundred meter radious. Vulcan guns mounted on head three hundred rounds each, 105mm rifle with a one hundred round clip. Two Beam sabers mounted in each wrist, two Beam sais mounted on each forearm. Six planet defenser energy shield.

E – sixteen point five meters tall, eight point five metric tons. Sensor mounted in head two hundred meter radius. Machine cannon mounted in chest times two, six hundred and fifty rounds each. Two Heat swords stored in charged pack on back. Buster shield with beam blade that can be launched at target.

Beside each new mobile suit came pictures of the specs of the machine and pictures of them. Duo looked at the computer screen in his office with a frown. He wasn't truly upset at what he was looking at here; no he was upset because now Quatre and Ryan would be monitoring this computer. The program downloaded as soon as he plugged in the device, he had no doubt that he could remove it, but he bet that that would also alert Ryan as well. He would just have to bring it up when he went to work in a couple of days.

Trowa was leaning over him and glaring at the screen. "They look like Gundams," he said. "What is Quatre thinking?"

"That he needs to help revive that Alliance," Duo answered and ran a hand through his bangs. Trowa straightened from leaning over Duo's shoulder and shook his head. He glared at the wall as if to vent a bit of anger. "We still need to figure out if any of them are working and how large their army is," Duo sighed leaning back in his chair.

"He's an idiot," Trowa finally said, he walked to the door and walked out. Duo watched as he left and rubbed the back of his head. He wasn't so sure if Trowa was right.

Duo went back to the computer and opened the other file on the drive. The Zero system coding. He hadn't told Trowa of this yet. So he sat in his office for an hour or so just reading the specs on the system. After that Trowa knocked on the door and opened it. Duo looked up from the computer screen.

"It's late," he said. Duo nodded and turned the computer off before he walked up stairs following Trowa. They went their own ways and Duo crashed on his bed staring at the ceiling.

Trowa sat on the bed next to him.

"Quatre really wants to help revive the alliance?"

"Yeah, he gave me a whole speech and everything about what humanity is. It seems that the colonies aren't getting the help they need from Preventers either, know anything about that?"

"From what I know there is a preventer office in each colony cluster."

"So one office for three to seven colonies," Duo bit the inside of his cheek. "Damn Tro, that's just not good enough."

"It's what Commander Une had funds for. If the government would just give her permission to use the old Oz and alliance bases they wouldn't have to fund building new buildings and just send people to space. But they say that the old bases would just be temptation for a coup d'etat."

"So Une can't do anything about it, it's all just Relena and the government?" Duo asked and looked at Trowa. The former mercenary looked down at Duo.

"Yeah, pretty much, the Preventers are only given so much in funds, and the government believes that Earth is still most important to keep safe so most of it goes to the Earth offices."

Duo frowned up at Trowa and placed a hand on his head as he thought. "Man this sucks, why is Preventers only getting a fraction of funds?"

"Because the government still has to fund the local police forces and other military operations for defense, the air and space ports and train stations for example, they also fund NASA," Trowa explained to Duo who let out a heaving sigh.

"Okay so the government has limited funds, I thought that Quatre's company got tax breaks to help fund the Preventers," Duo asked. "I know he has plenty to help set up Preventer offices in the colonies."

"Yes, and it helped the first two years that the council allowed it, the third year however they taxed all seven of his resource satellites, Quatre wasn't upset about it, but his funding for the preventers was cut because he needed to make sure that his business ran first."

Duo shook his head and shrugged a shoulder. "That doesn't mean that Quatre should want to revive the Alliance does it?" Duo worried his bottom lip and let out an annoyed growl. "We'll figure this out later, I am going to sleep."

Trowa took that as his cue to leave him alone. He walked out and closed the door behind him. He stood and listened to Duo shift around; he guessed he changed clothes before he heard the thud of a body hitting the bed. Duo was taking this hard.

Trowa stood there a few more minutes and then headed down the stairs and into Duo's office. He placed his hand on the computer power button but paused. Duo hadn't told him it was safe, he removed his hand and just slumped in the chair.

"Quatre," he breathed out and buried his face in his hands. "What is your goal? Was our fight seven years ago for nothing?"

Trowa looked up and towards the open door of the office. He stood up and walked out leaving Duo to sort out the information they would need to give to Une later. He then took to his own bed.

Morning was less eventful; they listened to the news while they ate breakfast. Duo retreated to the office and Trowa was left to wonder around the house and the grounds outside of it. It really was like one of Quatre's mansions. There was even a small swimming pool in the back yard with a deck and pool house. Trowa leaned on the porch railing and watched the colony sky. It was nothing like the earth sky and the breeze that swept by was generated, not natural. He had been spoiled on Earth.

After a while of just sitting there he turned back towards the house and knocked on the office door before he opened it.

"I am going to go look around," Trowa said. Duo nodded his head as he read over something on the screen and jotted down notes. It was strange seeing Duo focused like he was. Trowa closed the door and then walked out and called Rubie. She showed up ten minutes later and they went off into town.

They parked somewhere and walked down the market street where shops lined nearly the entire street. Rubie walked with him but remained a silent companion. Trowa stopped and looked in at a toy store at the display of stuffed animals.

"Is there a pet store around here?" he asked Rubie as she looked in at the window.

"Umm, I think there is," she straightened and looked around the street and pointed. "About a block that way," she said. Trowa turned to her pointing and nodded his head. They started off towards the store. Once inside a small flash of a smile crossed his lips.

He looked at the felines and canines both, he wasn't sure which one to get, he liked all animals and he was sure Duo leaned towards cats, but he wasn't sure. In fact he didn't know much about his husband, he had just learned that he had graduated from a known college, not stayed a scrap yard sweeper. He had thought about calling him and asking but that would seem a little off.

Trowa looked at the puppies and reached his hand inside the cage and several dogs bounced over to him and started to lick his hand, he ran his hand over what looked a German shepherd mix mutt. The dog had dark green eyes, he reached out and picked up the pup and ran his hand over the creature as it tried to lick his face. Soon an employee walked over to him. Rubie was smiling wide as she watched Trowa handle the animal. He would need something to keep him busy while Duo was working.

In the end he got the pup and a blue eyed dark kitten, Rubie had gone to get the car and pull it around to pack all the things that he had gotten for the animals. The cat he name Sky, she purred happily in her carrier as the pup yipped some at being in his.

Rubie happily drove back to the house. Trowa carried the carriers inside and looked off to the side to see Duo leaning over the kitchen counter looking at some paper work while a pot was boiling beside him. He didn't even look up as Trowa and Rubie brought everything inside.

However Duo watched silently as they made their trips.

"Pets?" Duo asked as he leaned on the door frame to the walkway and kitchen.

"I need something to do while you are gone," Trowa said and looked at Duo to try and judge his reaction of the pets. Duo didn't seem upset about it.

"What did you get?" he asked and walked closer to the animals. He opened the dog cage first and the puppy bounced out with a lot of energy and yipped at him while wagging his tail. Duo crouched down and took the puppy's head in his hands and looked at him. "A mutt huh…" he said with a grin on his face as the dog licked at him. Trowa opened the cat's cage and picked up the small creature and sat her on his shoulder. "Jade," Duo said. Trowa looked at him and turned his head to the side. "The dog's eyes and his name."

So they had two members to their family now. Trowa crouched down and ran his hand over the dog's fur. Duo looked up at Trowa, their eyes locking for a moment before Trowa looked down to the dog.

"Trowa I…" Duo caught his attention as the former pilot look back at him waiting for him to talk again.

"The dog didn't have a name, it's okay, I like Jade," Trowa guessed what he was going to say as he stood up and went to put some things away then. Duo stayed with the dog and it placed his head on Duo's thigh and looked up at him.

"Yeah, yeah don't look at me like that," he muttered to the dog. He walked back into the kitchen and looked at the pot and the reddish brown sauce and the chunks of shoulder meat. The dog followed him into the kitchen and sat down about two feet away from Duo's feet. The braided male looked at the dog and grinned at him. "Yeah I figured you'd be mine."

Trowa walked into the room and looked at the dog by Duo's feet as he still looked over something with a pen between his teeth. The cat still on his shoulder mewing softly as he moved around. Trowa walked over and put the caller on the dog and walked over to Duo and leaned over his shoulder. The cat mewing in protest in Trowa's ear.

"What's this?"

"The Zero system main control readings on a normal soldier, I have ten different soldiers patterns," Duo answered. Trowa looked at him wanting more of an explanation. Duo knew what he wanted but wasn't ready to tell him. They stood in silence as food was cooking. Duo turned to Trowa, he reached out and grabbed the other's hips and pulled him closer to his body and looked into the other's eyes. Trowa didn't flinch from the touch or the look in Duo's eyes. "Trust me…"