Author's notes: Nataku is not going to mirror the series it will reach a certain point where well you can guess...
Meiran and the pilot of Heavyarms Trowa Barton fought their way to a hanger with two mobile suit carriers. After tearing the doors apart they halted for a second when they spotted...
"Explosive devices, each with infrared sensors." Trowa pointed out.
"That won't stop me! I'm going after Treize!" Meiran rushed Shenlong through infrared beams detonating several explosives.
Once they reached there fortunately the only damage was to the hanger and once she loaded Shenlong into the carrier. She rushed to the cockpit of the carrier with the hanger doors torn apart take off would be a simple matter after quickly prepping her carrier for launch.
"You ready?" She asked Trowa on the radio.
"Yes." Trowa replied simply.
They took off and went after Treize they knew where he was and no matter what that little blonde boy said she was going after Treize!
Meiran's mind was racing as they flew their carriers towards Treize he was on a yacht somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. This entire mission was totally screwed, Treize set a trap and they fell for it! Meiran was late at New Edwards so the only reason she knew who was on that shuttle was through the Alliance's reports, there was no way of knowing who was on that shuttle and if the pilot of Wing Zero had not shot down the shuttle she probably would have...
"What's wrong?" asked Trowa interrupting her reverie.
"Huh?"
"We're not that far away from Treize, you should stay focused and not let yourself distracted."
"I understand." She said plotting her carrier's collision course towards one of the battleships, at full speed! She was going to exit on Shenlong, her carrier is low on fuel and won't cause too much of an explosion. She immediately spotted Trowa on the aircraft carrier fighting a full squadron of Leos.
Then on her radar she had contact with a ship moving away from the rest of the fleet.
"It has to be the one!"
After destroying the bridge of the battleship with her dragon's claw, she immediately intercepted the ship crushing another battleships guns underfoot and destroying its bridge with her glaive.
I'm almost there! What the!? As something rammed into her before she had time to get out of the way! Ramming her right into the remains of the battleships bridge.
Meiran shook herself and saw her attacker; it was a modified Leo capable of Flight.
"Don't be so sure of yourself. You're not getting one step closer to that ship!" It was a woman's voice with a note of anger about it! Whipping out a beam saber.
"You can't stop me!" snapped Meiran. All I have to disarm her and...
The Leo pilot attacked with her beam saber. Meiran dodged the first attack and the second one....the third attack she gripped the Leo's sword arm tightly!
"I wasn't expecting this much resistance...but it's game over now, you die!" Trying to wrestle past the arm that was gripping the Leo's sword arm.
Meiran shook her head, taking full advantage of Shenlong's superior strength she crushed and tore the Leo's sword arm off! But the Leo kept attacking with its one remaining arm.
She's tenacious! I'll give her that much. Meiran thought in quiet praise of this pilot.
"Step aside, without your weapons you are no threat to me."
"I never knew Gundam's were so powerful..."
They were interrupted by the sound of a horn, Meiran blinked in surprise Treize's ship was approaching them!
"Mister Treize!" The pilot clearly shared her surprise.
Giving the approaching ship a glance Meiran offered "Looks like your superior wants to fight me, Very well."
"Mr. Treize, it's dangerous! Get away from here!"
"Leave him to me." Treize replied.
"But Mr. Treize..."
But as the exchange went Meiran steered Shenlong towards the Treize's ship. She closes her visual sensor on Treize and it just had to be him. Meiran extends and rams the dragon's claw through a wall and then she saw Treize had a sword in his hand.
"I accept." Said Meiran as she drew out her katana. She promptly gets out of her Gundam and leaps onto Shenlong's right arm where the extended claw was using it is a bridge she made her way towards Treize.
Meiran then assumed the duelling stance and said "I am Nataku!"
"I am Treize Kushrenada." Treize responded calmly.
Meiran attacks but Treize dodges and parries her next attack, then her next attack. Treize counter slashes at her but Meiran leaps out of the way and leaps and attacks but Treizes dodges it and places his sword at her throat.
"The duel is mine." Said Treize as the young pilot rose to his feet and he arched an eyebrow at Treize.
"Why hesitate? Kill me..." said the pilot calmly.
Treize simply noticed something on his neck just above the collarbone. The collar was probably slashed in the fight he reasoned and turned around.
"It was a good fight." Replied Treize.
"If you don't kill me. I'll keep on coming back to kill you Treize!" snarled the pilot.
Treize merely smiled "That sounds interesting, I hope we meet again."
The pilot merely growled in frustration and headed back towards the Gundam and then it dove into the water.
Lady Une walked up to him and asked an obvious question "Mr. Treize, how could you let that Gundam pilot escape?"
"He's the pilot of one of those mobile so I felt it fair to give one more chance. It was honourable of him to get off the mobile suit and duel with, I respect that. Next time we'll fight using his specialty the mobile suit." Treize was omitting his silent suspicions about the pilot. That device around his neck that was a larynx reverberator used to disguise voices but why would he or rather...?
"But Mr. Treize..."
Meiran submerged, she...lost. She barely noticed the Heavyarms pilot defeat the last of the cancer.
"Hey you! Can you hear me?" he called out.
Meiran didn't answer.
"I understand, let's just drop it."
Meiran simply nodded and halted her Gundam and they simply took off.
They eventually arrived at the circus where Trowa worked after hiding their Gundam's, Trowa noticed something, the collar of the Chinese boys shirt has been cut and there was something else...something around the neck, just above the collarbone. Feeling curious he walked and recognised the device, he'd seen enough to know what it was.
Why would he need to disguise his voice? He wondered and approached him, pulled down his shirt slightly, noticed more then the larynx reverberator and looked at him or rather her in a mixture of silent apology and silent question.
"So you know..." The girl replied.
Trowa nodded "Who are you?"
"My real name is Meiran Chang, I was born on the L-5 colony and I'm one of the Long Clan."
Trowa nodded for her to go on.
"On my colony, I was constantly thought as weak or inferior or both to men. But nevertheless I met Master O..."
Master O? The Gundam Scientist who built her Gundam.
"I approached him and he was reluctant to allow me to pilot because I'm a girl, I told I was no longer I was Nataku and he allowed to pilot the first Gundam, the Gundam Stormcrow..." Then Merian went through the rest of her story and then "...I pretended to be male and it was both my and Master O's idea. So I wore this and..."
Trowa nodded and smiled "I understand, I'll keep your secret."
Meiran blushed slightly and smiled back "...Thank you."
"Male or female you are still a pilot." Said Trowa.
"If you take me lightly you're going to answer for it!" Meiran replied with a frown.
"Hey Trowa!" called Catherine
Meiran then did up her jacket as Catherine approached.
They sat near a fire as a kettle boiled and they both looked thoughtful.
Meiran was lost in thought.
I have...lost...I have...failed...Wufei...I am so sorry.
Meiran thought about how she judged by appearances too much, she thought how much she resented Wufei for being scholarly and 'weak'. Turned out he wasn't weak at all, to her own surprise she came to love him.
She remembered the unfortunate shot to Stormcrow damaging her gyro's somewhat and Wufei's intervention and how he died. It showed me he wasn't so weak after all.
Catherine interrupted her thoughts "Gee, you two you call that fun? Just sitting like that? You haven't said a word for two hours."
Not much to talk about? After I revealed my secret to Trowa...Meiran as she nodded a silent greeting at Catherine who was approaching them carrying a tray.
"What do you want?" asked Trowa.
"Nice greeting, Here I thought I'm doing a favour bringing this." As she set the tray down with two stews on it. "Eat it right up before it gets cold. I'll leave it here, so help yourselves, clean the dishes after you finish, right? Bye?"
Quiet people attract quiet friends thought Catherine, there was something about that other boy but she could not quite put her finger on it, maybe it was how he did his jacket up so fast when she approached. Or maybe it's nothing.
Later Meiran went up to Shenlong and just stared at in deep thought. Meiran immediately remembered Wufei's sacrifice.
She heard someone behind her it was Trowa who asked "What are you going to do?"
Meiran sighed "I can't run away...I will continue to fight..."
Trowa simply nodded in acknowledgement.
It's been a few days since my duel with Treize...Meiran mused as she and Trowa went over her mission data.
"No choice but to attack what they're transporting. Even the most elementary decoy plans will allow to efficiently disperse their power. It's by air."
Meiran nodded in acknowledgement and boarded Shenlong.
They split up as they arrived at the base; Meiran cut her way through a group of Aries and fired her flamethrowers against a tank squadron.
Hardly viable against Mobile suits especially a Gundam, I may have lost but I can still fight! Huh? What's this a mobile suit approaching 01...The Stormcrow?
The mobile suit did indeed look a lot like Stormcrow; it even had the same speed and acceleration even had similar armament.
Meiran's musings were interrupted by approaching which she promptly with her Vulcan cannons and then she picked up something as she was fighting a group of Leo's.
"Attention all Gundam Pilots! We are now in a position to launch an all out missile attack on the colonies. We have seized all missile satellites from the former alliance. We control the destiny of all colonies. This isn't a bluff! Surrender at once and hand over your Gundams."
I never thought they would use such cowardly tactics! That officer is clearly a pathetic nut and I don't see how she had gotten under Treize. Meiran had an impression that Treize would never condone such tactics.
Meiran's furious were interrupted by a transmission which she suspected broke through even OZ, he was old, with long balding, a receding hairline and two cybernetic eyes.
Could he be another Gundam scientist? Wait I recognise somewhere before...
"Attention OZ, I never imagined that you people could be so incredibly foolish! The colonies have no intention of fighting OZ. This is a personal battle that I'm staging against you."
The OZ officer replied "So the rebel finally reveals himself."
Dr. J replied "In your eyes, inhumane moves such as attacking the colonies are just if it's what it takes for you to come out victorious, right? I have no choice but to surrender..."
"Very well your surrender is accepted, abandon your Gundams immediately!"
Meiran felt herself hesitate.
"I surrender but I will not hand over the Gundams! I repeat I surrender but I will not hand over the Gundams!"
Meiran gasped as she saw something the pilot of 01 just self-detonated! In exchange for the colonies. It's pilot was lying on the ground in a pool of blood, he seemed to be alive but she could not determine for certain...
"Can you hear we must leave here at once."
Trowa...
"Trowa? is that you Trowa?" asked Quatre, Trowa mentioned the pilot of Sandrock's name to her.
"Without resolutions we cannot fight, he's accepted all orders." Trowa replied referring to the 01 pilot." As he picked up the unconscious of 01.
"Because they bluffed with the colonies, damn!" cursed the Deathscythe pilot.
Meiran snarled in frustration "No choice! We have to retreat!"
The Stormcrow pilot allowed Trowa to walk away.
Damn them!
Meiran moved her Gundam towards a truck after securing and covering her gundam, she vented her anger by kicking the truck in frustration, she then boarded the truck and then drove away shaking her head in silent frustration.
What now?
Author's notes: How was that? Meiran was the driving force behind Wufei's life, but I never believed those two were the exact same personalities. Meiran is a woman of her own convictions, while she would have been embarrassed at losing to Treize but she did not have to worry about being worthy.
I am still continuing the readers vote on who Meiran's romantic interest would be and I have removed for those who have not read the revised chapter 1.
I require votes for whom Meiran is going to fall in love with, I will continue the vote until some point.
So far I have received votes for Heero, Duo, Trowa, Quatre and Treize. But you can vote for who you want. But Wufei has died in this fan fiction, it is important to remember that when you vote.