Alright! Here's the first chapter for my newest story! It's a 1+5, 3+2+4 story and it's probably going to be going for a little while. I hope you enjoy reading it and you won't lynch me if I don't update regularly. I'm supposed to be writing papers and studying for finals, after all.

Hikaru Kosuzaku

Quatre Winner gave a small smile as he looked about their strange group. The year they had spent away from the war had been good for them. All five of the former pilots worked for Preventers, although Quatre only worked there part-time. He partnered with Heero and Duo during those times, leaving Trowa and Wufei to work together. Une had given up in an attempt to keep the pilots from working with their lovers when she realized that no matter who Quatre was placed with, he would always end up with either Duo or Trowa.

In the year since the Eve Wars, the boys had grown up. While they weren't yet adults, they had lost some of the childishness to their features that had been present during the wars. They were all still extremely fit, a precaution just in case they needed to pull their Gundams from their secret storage. Une and a couple of the other top agents knew that the boys hadn't actually destroyed them, as the last set of wars taught the Preventers that you could never be too prepared.

They had all grown during the year. Trowa was still the tallest, having shot up to a height of six foot three. He still practiced his acrobatics, and was such had kept that figure. He liked his height and used it to his advantages, especially against his two lovers. Quatre was the second tallest of the group at five foot eleven, and had lost the baby-face he had managed to keep during the war. Instead he now stood as an aristocratic CEO, and an even better agent.

Heero hadn't grown much, due to genetic manipulation, but he had also lost the childish look to his features. In his place was a young man with chiseled features and a glare that could make even the most hardened criminal wet himself. He only stood at five foot six, but that was okay with him. In his mind, he was short and that was that. He didn't have a problem with it, and anyway it was the perfect size to cuddle up to Wufei with. Wufei, had grown to be five foot eight, making him the third tallest in their small group. He'd allowed his hair to grow to mid-back and usually kept in tied back in a lose ponytail as opposed to the tight one from the wars.

Duo, however, had changed the least. His time on the streets had left his size at a small five foot two. He was still too thin despite the amount he ate, and had a tendency to be somewhat flighty. Trowa and Quatre had managed to curb his fears about losing everything he loved, although it had taken a while. He was still his energetic happy self for the majority of the time, however, and could often be found snuggling with Trowa while convincing Quatre to finish his paperwork for him.

Quatre smiled, looking around at his friends and holding back a laugh as Duo antagonized Wufei over something. They weren't children anymore, but still took the time to act as such. Duo, seeing his amusement, bounced over to the desk and plopped onto it. "Hey Quattie! What's up?"

"Don't you have some paperwork you need to finish?" Quatre asked with an amused smile.

Duo grinned. "Heero loves me and will do it for me. Won't you Hee-chan?"

Heero rolled his eyes, crumbling up a piece of paper and lobbing it at Duo, where it bounced of the braided pilot's forehead. "Do your own work, baka." That was one friendship Quatre was pretty sure he would never understand. That and Duo's friendship with Wufei. The braided teen lived to annoy the two, and yet the three were practically best friends. It was strange, but so long as no one died, he would go with it.

Duo pouted. "Aww…well…Q-bean! You love me!"

Quatre shook his head. "Not when you don't do your work."

Duo's pout intensified but he finally gave up and got to work. About fifteen minutes later, Trowa stepped into the office to say that Une had an assignment for the five of them. Quatre sighed, setting aside the copious amount of paperwork that he would have usually done at WEI headquarters. He had gotten lonely, however, and had snuck off to Preventers to join with the others. Just his luck that they would be getting a mission on the day he had actually decided to come.

They all stood, stretching slightly as they made their way to Une's office, Duo bouncing ahead of them as he was wont to do. Trowa and Quatre exchanged amused smiles as Wufei and Heero both rolled their eyes. Upon entering the office, however, they all settled down and waited for their orders.

Une sighed tiredly as the five stood in front of her. "We've lost all contact with L2," she stated emotionlessly. "Apparently Oz had some troops left on the colony that went underground after the war. They've now managed to overcome the entirety of our Preventers base there."

Wufei frowned. "Wouldn't they know that we would retaliate?" he asked, sounding slightly perplexed.

Une shrugged. "Apparently, they don't fear the Preventers or the Gundam Pilots." She frowned, tilting her head to one side. "Our contact managed to say that the only thing they feared was the Demon before we lost contact."

"The Demon?" Heero asked. It was obvious he had never heard of it before.

Quatre noticed Duo's face go suspiciously blank and turned to him. "Duo? What do you know?"

"The Demon," Duo murmured. "That was when I was a kid. It's been years since then…everybody was scared of the Demon." He didn't say anything else and the others took it to mean that he didn't know anything else about the entity.

"What do you want us to do?" Trowa asked, eyeing Duo for a moment before turning back to the Commander.

"I want you to go in and contain the situation," Une replied. "Everything goes. We need to get the colony back under ESUN control, and as long as the Oz troops hold it, it won't be."

"Mission accepted," Heero replied, and the others all agreed as well.

They exited the office, and it seemed that no one noticed that Duo was no longer bouncing.