Disclaimer: I don't own ngw, or gw, but I own some of the characters 
and this story, so there. ^.^ btw, Xien is pronounced Shi-en.

The Living Gundam
(A Prequel to I hate Time Travel)

By Nanami Tendo

The sun shone brightly down on the Sanq Kingdom. And at the Peacecraft 
Academy, It was the beginning of Summer vacation. Students were filing
out of the school excitedly in the end of the last day of school rush.
And in the rushing crowd, a few people try to make their way toward 
eachother. One brown haired, violet eyed boy, a girl of the same hair
and eye color, a red headed boy with a katana, and a Black haired girl
with light green eyes. As the other file around them, they look at 
Each other and smile. They all look to be about the age of sixteen.

brown haired boy: So, we're officially Sophmores now. This calls for 
a celebration. Lets go out for bugers, what do you think Windy?

Windy:*turns her violet eyes over to her twin brother* Sounds good to 
me Tempest. *Looks at the other two. What about you guys? Xien? Rie?

Xien: Sounds good to me. I don't have to go train with father for 
another hour or so.

Rie: I'm up for it as well. Oh wait, I have to go home. Mom said she
wanted me to meet someone or something like that.

Windy: That right! We were all supposed to go there too cause our 
parents were meeting for some important thing or another. 

Xien: Ugh, well, we had better get going then. (sigh) What a way to 
start summer vacation...

They all head off toward Rie's house. Inside the house there are 
several portaits including one large painting of her great great 
grandfather and great great grandmother, Heero and Releena Yuy. 

Rie: I wonder why Mom and Dad don't ever take that thing down. grr...
it's so overbearing to have such famous ancestors staring down at you
all the time. Makes me feel inadiquate or sumthin.

Xien: Hah, at least your great great grandfather wasn't Chang Wufei. 
My dad can't seem to get enough of talking about what a strong man he
was.

Tempest: Actually, I'm kind of proud to have someone like Quatre Winner
as my anscestor.

Windy: You would be!! I like Great Grandfather Shingo better. He was
much cooler.

Just then, Rie's Mother comes down the stairs. Her name is Kira Yuy and
She has Black hair and grey eyes. 

Kira: Rie, I'm glad you're here, come into the living room with your 
friends.

They all make their way into the living room where a woman with dark-
purple hair and brown eyes is sitting on the couch with another girl,
this one with blue-ish silver hair and silver eyes. She seems a bit
odd to the teenagers, but they can't quite place it. They recognize
the woman because she's a friend of all of their families, her name
is Daylinn, and she was once going to be married to a man named 
Lance Peacecraft, but a terrible accident had taken his life before 
their dreams could come to fruitition and she had been left alone.
Most people considered her his widow anyway, and called her Daylinn 
Peacecraft. She smiled when she saw them, and stood up to greet them
more politely. Looking around, they also noticed the other parents.
Chang Wujen, Selenia and Damien Winner, And Fiore and Zidane Barton and
their son Tylor, who gets up to join his friends, not to mention Rie's 
Father, Tristan Yuy.

Tempest: So, mind if I ask what we're all doing here?

Kira: Well, we're here to introduce you to someone. Celestine?
Celestine, come here please.

The girl with the blue-ish Sliver hair and Silver eyes stand up and
comes over to them. She seems a bit nervous.

Kira: This is Celestine Peacecraft. She's Daylinn's uhmm..daughter.

Xien: But...but how?

Daylinn: She's a Gundam. I built her. It's, very complicated.

Celestine: Uhmm...pleased to meet you? *sheepish grin*

Tempest: *blink blink* You're..a gundam? but..how?

Daylinn: I'll let her tell you about it. 

Celestine: Well, my Mother..Daylinn, built me out of Gundanium and 
imbued me with the Zero System 2x. She then...uhmm..actually connected
herself to me through the system in the same way most mobile suits are
controlled nowadays and imbued me with part of her soul. I now have
a consiousness and I don't require a pilot to move because of that fact.
Of course I'm fully combat ready should the need arise, and I can hook
up to computer terminals and use them to get information or even hack 
into other peoples computer systems.

Tylor: Not to mention your hot bod.

Rie: *thwap*

Tylor: Hey, that hurt Rie!

Rie: Well it wasn't supposed to feel good. 

Celestine: *chuckles* I supose I'll take that as a compliment. 

Tempest: Well, I'm Tempest, and this is my sister Windy, and our
friends, Rie, Xien, and Tylor.

Celestine: What are you all doing?

Xien: We were just about to go out to get burgers to celebrate it being
summer vacation. Do you eat?

Celestine: I can, but I don't have to.

Rie: Would you like to come with us?

Celestine: I'd love that.

Xien: And Tylor's right. You do have a hot bod.

Rie and Windy: *thwap*

Xien: Owww...hey, how come he only got hit by one girl!?

Windy: Cause I wasn't close enough to hit him.

Xien: Tylor you lucky bastard.

Tylor: Hey, sorry man, I can't help it if I have all the luck.

The girls and Tempest sigh and they all head out to burgers and cokes.
As their sitting around talking, they start to get an idea of what
Celestine's personality is like. Amazingly, despite the fact that she
got her soul from Daylinn, she seems to have developed it into 
something totally unique and completely her own. Then the fall silent
as a figure enters the diner. It's a girl about the age of 18 or so,
with light purple hair and aqua eyes. Everyone groans except for
Celestine, who has never met this person before. 

Rie: Oh no, it's Shasti. *shudder*

Celestine: Shasti?

Tylor: yeah, She's been picking on us since we were kids. She's such a
snob. I think she's your cousin, well sorta, I mean, if Daylinn had
actually married Lance she would be your cousin.

Tempest: shhh...she's comming this way. Try not to be noticed.

Luckilly for them, Shasti doesn't stay long. She just gets a soda to 
go and leaves without noticing them. They all sigh with relief when 
she's gone. Then they all part ways and go off to their own houses.
The summer breezes by however, and it's only once school starts up 
again that things really start to pick up. Celestine is enrolled in
school, but doesn't always get to go because she often has to do reflex
and other types of testing because she is in essance a living Gundam.
In the meantime, She shares classes with Tempest, Rie, and Tylor and 
sees Windy and Xien durring lunch. occationally Shasti will stop by
to lord her Senior-ness over them and thats usually when Windy would
throw some food at her and having to spend the rest of lunch period
hiding from her. But that wasn't always the case...

Tylor: Come on, let us see one of your Hentai Girl mags! We just 
wanna know whats in it!

Windy: Noo...

Xien: Plleeeaasssee....

Windy: Come on, like you guys really wanna see a bunch of naked guys..

Tylor: But I heard there was...other things...in it too.

Xien: Yeah. Like ya know...girls that like other girls...

Windy: What!? Where'd you dorks hear that?

Tylor: From some of the guys around school.

Windy: Well, they didn't know what they were talking about. * downs 
half her sandwhich in one bite and then goes for the rest of it*

Rie: You guys are making me sick. Do you have to talk about hentai mags
at the lunch table? 

Xien: Where else would we talk about it?

Tempest: Anywhere but here.

Tylor: Oh come on. You wanna see 'em too I bet!

Tempest: what? Are you nuts?

Windy: Where did *that* idea come from Ty?

Tylor: Uhmm...oh yeah, sorry. I should have known better.

Xien: I'll say.

Rie: So, has anyone seen Celes today?

Tempest: I think she had somemore tests to do at the hanger.

Rie: Oh. I feel bad for her sometimes. They really make her work hard!
*Looks over and sees Xien picking up on a girl at another table* Xi-en.
...Grrrrrrr.....*turns to Tempest* Be right back. 

Xien:*Sees her comming* Uh-oh...gotta go...

Rie:XIEN! When I catch you you are a DEAD MAN!!! *starts chasing Xien
around the lunchroom*

Xien:Ahhhh!! I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm SORRY!!! *while running away*

Tylor: Run Xien! Run!!

Tempest & Celestine: *sweatdrop*

Windy: *takes out a copy of "explosives & you" magazine and starts 
reading while downing the bag of chips and the soda she brought.* 

Tempest: I thought you weren't allowed to bring those to school 
anymore.

Windy: No, I belive what he said was "I don't want to *catch* you with
those at school. He's not catching me with them, so it's perfectly 
alright.

Tempest: Your logic is scarey.

Windy: It is not! It makes perfect sense.

Tylor: She's right. As long as you want to get away with something, any
logic can make sense.

Windy: Thank you Ty.

Tylor: No prob.

Celestine meets them on the front steps after school. She looks a bit 
disturbed, but Xien Tylor and Rie have to leave before they can
find out whats wrong. Tempest and Windy however, stay behind and start
to pry for info as to why their...unique friend seems so troubled.

Tempest: Celes what up? You look positively depressed.

Windy: Yeah, how come you look so sad?

Celestine: Well, I've been reading a lot of history lately, because I'm
trying to get ahead so that my testing doesn't hurt my grades, and I've
been bothered by something. 

Tempest: Well what is it?

Celestine: Time Travel.

Windy: Huh? What about Time Travel?

Celestine: Well, I feel like there's something wrong. Time Travel is a 
tool, and people use it, probably a lot, without anyone even knowing it.
And if people can use it to change little things, they can use it to
change big things too.

Tempest: How big?

Celestine: They could change any number of important events in history.
They could even change the outcome of wars if they don't end in their
favor. Why, if a person wanted, they could go back in time to Civil War
Era America and make it to that the Confederates Win instead of the
Union.

Windy: Wow, thats big.

Celestine: Yeah. 

Tempest: But that means, everything we learned in school might be a lie.
An engineered history made by the people who wanted to remake the out-
come of things to suit their needs.

Celestine: I know. And it really bothers me. I can't just sit by and
let something that wrong happen. I have to do something.

Windy: Like what?

Celestine: I don't know, but whatever it is, it's going to be big.

Tempest: What can you do? It's not like you can just go back in time and
kill the guy who creates the first time machine.

Celestine: *stares at Temest* You're a genius!! That it! I'll go back,
and take out the inventor of time travel!!

Windy: What? Come on, you can't do that. Can you?

Celestine: Why not? It wouldn't be that hard to do. He is, afterall,
only human.

Tempest: Come on now, think rationally.

Celestine: I am always rational. I have see something wrong, and I am
going to fix it.

Windy: What about us?

Celestine: What about you? You'll stay here and go to school of course.
What else would you do? Now, I have to go and find out what I'm going
to need for this endevor.

Tempest:(sigh) You can't be serious....

-- the end? --

Well, there's the prequel. As you can see it left off probably about
a month before I hate Time Travel started. I hope it explains a few 
things though that were missing before. I know it probably could have
been better but it was getting late and I got tired. Sorry. Anyway,
questions? comments? Slander? Send them all to Nanami Tendo, care of
JetLeonheart@aol.com OR UmikoYuy@yahoo.com