Act 1: Relena Dorian - Anime - http://maxpages.com/gundamwing2001/Act_1_Relena

Gundam Wing: Episode Zero is a series of short comics put out as inserts in the magazine "Anime V". The series presents an episode from each character's past - Relena, Duo, Heero, Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei (in that order). The glimpses into the characters' past offer an explanation for events in the series, and the characters reasoning for joining the war. While all these chapters are official, they're technically not canon and thus under constant discussion among GW fans.

AC 191 - Dorian Estate

*Relena is going to school, she has a book in hand*

Mother: Take care, Relena.

*Relena bows silently and continues on her way*

Mother: Relena.... I know you're reserved.... but why don't you speak more?

*Image of Cinq Kingdom burning*

Mother: Is it because that incident during your childhood is has your heart still trapped?

[St. Gabriel Academy]

*Relena sits at her desk quietly. Two Girls enter*

Girl1: *giggling* Truely.

Girl2: Yes. (notices Relena) Oh....

Girl1: Good morning Relena.....

Girl2: Good morning.

Relena: .....

Girl2: Really.... she's always so intense... Relena's so marvelous.

Girl1: Of course! She is the daughter of the Dorians after all.

*Relena stares at them as they pass*

*A sullen young boy, around 11 years old, stands at the gates. He's ragged and looks INCREDIBLY like Heero*

Relena: (noticing) .....?

Girl3: What is that child...?

Girl4: Oh my...

Girl4: Are they going to take him in, I wonder?

Girl3: How troublesome...

*Relena stands up and leaves, apparently annoyed*

Relena: (walking) Why... does everyone seem to look down at those who are unfortunate? It's not as if they wanted to turn out like that-

*Relena bumps into someone. Books drop to the ground. She's bumped into the orphan.*

Relena: Oh... He's the one from earlier...

*Boy bends down and picks up his books and continues along his way. Relena watches him go*

Narr: Years later, she would meet a boy named "Heero Yuy". The question was raised if they might indeed be the same person. Heero however had no memories of coming to the earth prior to Operation Meteor.

*Roof of the school*

Relena: (peeking from the doorway) !

Relena: Why is he here of all places? I must apologise to him about earlier... it was my fault...

Relena: ?

*Boy pulls out a pair of binoculars and looks thru them*

Relena: What is he doing?

Boy: (speaking into a small transponder) This is Black Alpha. Dorian Estates sighted.

Relena: My... house?

Boy: I think the refuge site for if the mission fails is more suitable than St. Gabriel.

Relena: What are you...?

Teacher: Is the reason why....

*Boy stares out the window*

*Relena watches the boy as he sits outside. Two other girls are talking*

Girl5: That boy is all alone again.

Girl6: He refuses to speak to anyone, it can't be helped.

Relena: .....

Relena: (thinking) I wonder why.... I have a feeling we're alike.... I...
want to know more about you.

*Boy staring from rooftop watching code being flashed at him.*

Boy: ... Tonight.

*Explosion*

Narr: This day, terrorists engaged in hostilities against the Earth Sphere Military assaulting a JAP point base in the Pacific Ocean.

*Air carrier above the ocean*

OZ1: Currently above the JAP point.

OZ1: We will reach combat air space in 300 seconds.

OZ2: Why is it that we, the Specials, have been dispatched to quell these dissidents?

Zechs: ....

Treize: The leader of OZ, General Catalonia wishes to test the abilities of mobile suits. And your abilities as well, First Lt. Zechs Merquise.

Zechs: It will be good if I can satisfy such high expectations.

Rebel: Shoot! Shoot them down! All of you die!

*Federation soldiers being shot*

*Two Arieses*

Treize: First Lt. Zechs. We should be able to finish this in three minutes.

Zechs: One minute will be sufficient, General Treize.

Zechs: The fighting should be stopped by the time I land.

*Zechs shoots, stuff blows up*

*Zechs does a wordless battle cry.*

Treize: Indeed.... so it's not just talk...

*Zechs lands and the fighting's pretty much over with*

Treize: He truly fights like a flash of light

[Translator's note: Treize is making a reference to Zech's fighitng style that will eventually earn Zech the nickname of Lightning Count]

Rebel: *hmph* (takes off in his Aries)

Zechs: You're not getting away!!

Treize: Zechs!!

Zechs: I'm leaving the rest to you, General!

[Dorian Estate]

Mother: Yes. Understood. (she hangs up phone) That was from general Bente.

*Relena pauses and listens*

Mother: There's a terrorist piloting a weapon called a mobile suit, escaping towards this area. I must tell my husband immediately...

*Relena walking outside now*
[Translator: My god is she STUPID?!]

Relena: .... Terrorist.... Mobile suit... Weapon... I don't understand it.

Relena: Why... do people fight so much?

Relena: But... it would seem that that boy has nothing to do with this.

Relena: It's so peaceful...

*Sound of an Aries going down. Flash of light in the hills*

Relena: *small scream* Could it...

*A small cloud of smoke rises from the forest*

Rebel: (kicking MS) *growl* SHIT! It was just a little furthur!

*Rebel whirls around with a gun in hand*

Rebel: Who's there?!

Rebel: (relieved) W..what... it's just a kid... This girl... could she?

Relena: No!

*Rebel has is arm around her neck, and gun pointed to her head.*

Rebel: Be good. I know you're Dorian's daughter. Who would have believed it... that you'd be here!

Relena: I'm... going to die? Am I going to die here?

*Relena sees something streaking across the sky*

Relena: A shooting star?

Rebel: !

Rebel: Shit! He's caught up already?!

Relena: No! Let go of me please!!

Rebel: (dragging her along) Just c'mon!

Zechs: Don't you think that's enough?

*Rebel freezes. Turns around. Zechs's Aries's cockpit opens*

Rebel: Sh-Shit! Don't move! Got it? One move and this... Dorian's daughter is dead.

Zechs: Dorian? Relena?!

Rebel: Now... get out of that mobile suit, nice and easy...

Zechs: .....

*Zechs gets out*

Rebel: Heh... A new Aries model....What a nice souvenir...

*Zechs whips out a gun and shots the guy in the hand. Rebel drops gun and goes down to his knees. Relena runs to Zech's side.*

Zechs: I have no desire to kill in front of this child... Get out of here!

Rebel: (Gets the hint and runs) Sh-Shit!

Relena: ......

Zechs: (smiling) How you've grown, Relena....

*Flashback to Relena taking her first steps. She falls flat.*

Woman: Princess. Oh... are you all right, princess?

Relena stares back at him expectantly.

Zechs: Eh?

Zechs: Oh.... yes... Milliard. You can't touch this girl... I've thrown away being a Peacecraft.... Taken a weapon into my hands... and chosen the blood-stained path of revenge.

Zechs: (holstering gun) Are you all right, Princess?

Relena: Princess?

Relena: If... I'm a princess.... then you're... a knight astride a fearful dragon?

Zechs: *chuckling* I'm the prince (who fell) from the stars.

Woman: Miss! Miss Relena!!!!

Zechs: Well then.... If you'll excuse me...

Relena: Oh...

*Relena watches Zechs walk away*

Relena: The prince.... from the stars...

[Next Day]

Girl1: Did you hear? That boy's disappeared.

Girl2: Did someone come to pick him up?

Girl3: It looks like he just fled.

*Relena closes her book. She heads up to the roof*

Relena: He's not here either...

Girl4: There was an act of terrorism against a military base yesterday... it seems that boy was part of that terrorist group.

Girl5: How scary.

Girl4: The teachers seem to think that he infiltrated this place to guide them.

Girl5: You can't let anyone without some sort of social status into the school...

Relena: That's...

*Relena spots the boy at the gate, staring up at her.*

Relena: !!

Relena: (running down the stairs and towards the gate) That's right! Status shouldn't have to matter! We're all human! We should all get along!

Relena: (panting) He's... gone....

Relena: (looking sad) I wanted to at least ask your name... I should have done that...

Relena: (to nobody) I... I'm Relena Dorian. And you are....?

Relena: And you are....?

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