Heero: *squishes her under a pillow* Stupid cat. Gomen nasai, she's having a major hangover.
Kitty~chan: *still singing*IF FONP PE UH FYLIF MARIG!! I FAND ASORB A CARRISH!! BUPH OLL LUHK SFEET UBON THE FEET UHB A BYFUKLE FUHLT FOR TOOO!!!!
Wufei: Shut that *very naughty phrase* cat up!!
Quatre: WUFEI!!!!!
Wufei: What?! That stupid furball is getting on my nerves!
Quatre: She's just got a hangover from the sugar she had.
Wufei: You don't get a hangover from eating sugar!!
Trowa: Apparently she does. I mean look at her! She's even more moronic than before!
Heero: Which in itself is quite a feat.
Wufei: Anyway, to get on with things,go ahead and read the chapter and find out what happens and see where we are with this at the end, no? Ok.
Kitty~chan: *throws pillow and Heero off of herself* HEY ALL!!! Guess what... I have a secret for yoo. Now listen to what I say carefully. *takes beep breath* I DON'T OWN GUNDAM WING OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS!!!! THEY ARE PROPERTY OF SUNRISE!!!!!!!!
Neo Heero
�So what do we do? Quatre, this is your strong suit. Can you think of anything?� Trowa wondered of the towhead.
�I don�t know. I have an idea if we can find out where they are or where they will be attacking first.� Quatre answered staring at the floor.
Relena asked a question that was pounding on her mind. �Hey guys, you seemed pretty confused to Shakaju�s plans. What went on with you and getting brainwashed and all?�
�Well, you see, we all knew what we were doing, but we couldn�t control our body�s or our voices to tell you or warn you. Shakaju controlled everything. However, Shakaju never told us the full extent of his plans. We never heard a word of what he said. We couldn�t speak or hear. Everything was a blur. We had no idea what his plans were or what he was doing. We just were doing his bidding. Or so it seemed. I can�t tell you how sorry I am.� Quatre bowed his head.
Trowa mimicked his action. �I�m so sorry Vice Foreign Minister. I should�ve been able to stop them from doing this to me. To us. I think I owe Heero the biggest apology. I was the one that poisoned his food and water.�
Wufei looked away, ashamed. �I�m so sorry! I can�t believe we were yet again used as mere puppets. I�m sorry I wasn�t able to stop them. Please forgive me.�
Relena looked at the three gundam pilots. �It�s alright! You have nothing to be ashamed of. It wasn�t your fault at all. You were being controlled like Heero is now. You all know how strong Heero is. He�s a lot stronger than all of you! So, if he wasn�t able to keep control, how do you expect yourselves to?�
Wufei looked over at Duo who was rapidly typing away at his laptop. �Don�t you have anything to say, Shinigami?� he asked snidely.
Duo looked up, surprised that anyone noticed him. �What? Oh, yes. Miss Relena, I am so sorry for what I did. I can�t believe I fired a shot at you after everything you�ve done for me.�
Relena looked at him, a sympathetic look in her eye. �Don�t worry about it. You had no control over what you were doing. Hey. What were you doing on the computer?� she wondered, walking over to where he was sitting.
�Well, that fight I lost against Heero, that wasn�t a complete loss. He was close enough that I was able to place a tracer on his shoe as he walked away. We can track him down and get rid of the gundam before he uses it.� He answered.
�But how do we know when we have to get there? We need as much time to prepare for this as we can, and for all we know, they could�ve left for an ESUN gathering to destroy or conquer it already.� Wufei reasoned.
Duo didn�t seemed to have an answer, but Quatre did. �I know!� The four others looked to him as he reached under the hair covering his ear and pulled a small black device from it.
�What�s that?� Trowa wondered.
�This is the communication devices that Shakaju used on us. If you�ll remember, they put one on Heero. And Shakaju was the one giving the orders, right, so he must have one. We just need to find out how to turn it on, and find out when the first attack will be.� Quatre explained.
Duo pulled his from his ear and hooked a line up to the computer. He downloaded the data on the device, then fiddled with it, until he put it to his ear, and heard voices. And one of them was Heero�s!
Trowa was about to ask if it was working when Duo clamped a hand over his mouth.
When will the attack be? That was Heero.
Tomorrow morning. There is a meeting in Indonesia that I think we should attend. Now get some sleep. You�ll need it for tomorrow. That was Shakaju.
Yes sir!
Duo pulled the device from his ear and switched it off. �Well, I turned it on, and eavesdropped on their conversation. They�re going to be attacking at the ESUN Leader�s Summit in Indonesia tomorrow morning. So what we do has to be done tonight.�
Relena�s heart lept. Maybe they could have Heero back by tonight! They had to get him back, or more than 100 people would die. Relena stood and clenched her fists. �Well, we need a plan! Let�s hear that plan of yours, Quatre.�
Trowa looked at her, a bit surprised. �We? Who said you were going? This is probably one of the most dangerous missions we�ve ever been on. You are most definitely not attending.�
Relena gave him a scowl. �Listen. After Heero knocked you guys out, he came after Milliardo and me. He put Milliardo in the condition he�s in, but when he looked at me, he picked me up by the neck, and then tapped my head against the wall, then dropped me. Something in his mind triggers when he sees me. I think it�s because of what we�ve been through together the last few days. I have to come! I�m a key to getting Heero back! Please! Let me come!�
Duo looked at Relena, then looked at Wufei. Wufei then spoke. �Relena, I know how much you love him, but� I�m worried for your safety.�
�Listen, guys! Heero is in there somewhere. The machine in him has him suppressed, but he is there. And I know that he will not let the perfect soldier kill me. I know he won�t.� Relena looked at Quatre in the eyes, silently begging him to let her come.
Quatre sighed and dropped his head. �Alright. You can come. But promise to be extremely careful.�
Relena smiled weakly. �I will.�
�Hey. Will Milliardo come?� Trowa asked, looking at her.
�No. Even if he didn�t have three cracked ribs and two broken ones, I wouldn�t let him come. He�d skip trying to revive Heero and go straight to killing him. He hates him too much.� Relena answered, smiling weakly once again.
Duo nodded and went back to finding the tracer.
Trowa looked around then signaled for the others to follow. The building they were in was a run down steel building, nothing fancy, and they were trying to find a control room of some sort so that they could find out where the gundam was stored.
Duo opened another door and looked in. Shakaju was sleeping there. He could kill him right now, but that would alert Heero, then he would have the chance to board the Gundam and use it, and they would all be dust in a matter of seconds, and � yeah. Not a good idea.
Relena was across the hall. She opened the door to reveal a hammock. There were a few boxes in the corner, but the person in the hammock was the thing that caught her eye. It was Heero. He was sleeping soundly. She resisted the urge to walk in and wake him up and shut the door once more.
Trowa picked the lock on the door to the control room and scanned the area for the surveillance cameras. He finally found them and turned them on. The many screens came to life and showed many pictures of the building all over. A lot of them were fuzzy. And the fact that there were no guards around puzzled him. He was about to ask when Duo beat him to it.
�What�s up with security? There�s no one guarding this place at all. I don�t get it.�
Quatre answered his question. �Judging by the state of the building and this equipment, I�d say that this place is just a hide out. This equipment is very outdated, and I�m betting that this used to be a storage house for mobile suits during the war seeing all of the hangers. I�m betting Shakaju doesn�t even know that this room exists.�
�Interesting. So, Trowa, where is the gundam?� Wufei wondered, coming up behind the brown-haired pilot.
�It�s not in the building. I�ve checked all of the security cameras and none of the hangers hold Zero One. This place isn�t too big. It would be impossible to hide that thing in the remaining space. It must be outside somewhere.� Trowa answered turning to look at him.
�It�s a pretty daring move; keeping it outside.� Duo said proudly.
�They probably didn�t suspect that anyone could track them down. This is a bit in the middle of nowhere.� Quatre guessed.
�But why isn�t it anywhere inside the building?� Duo wondered, walking over to where they were talking.
�Well, my guess is that this place is so old, that they couldn�t get the roof to open in order to get it in here. So they had no choice but to keep it outside.� Quatre commented.
�Now what do we do? I didn�t put a tracer on the gundam. How do we find it?� Duo wondered, shifting the weight of his backpack. Duo carried a backpack full of emergency explosives and weapons.
�Come on, Duo. It�s a sixty-foot tall piece of machinery. Tell me it won�t stand out.� Trowa snorted. Duo blushed a bit at his stupidity.
Quatre found the self-detonation switch, grabbed it, and headed out of the cockpit of Zero One. He landed a few feet away from the huge machine, then ran about a mile back toward the old base, where the other four were standing.
�You okay, Quatre?� Trowa wondered of his friend. Quatre had piloted the gundam about three miles away from the place where Shakaju and Heero were as well as gotten the self-detonation switch. So Trowa was wondering if the stress of piloting the gundam just that far had caused any problems.
�Fine. Here goes.� Quatre held up the switch and put his thumb on the red button. �This is the end of the Gundam Wing Zero.� The button made a �bloop� sound as Quatre activated the self detonation of the most powerful gundam ever created.
A bright light shown and Relena covered her ears as the deafening roar of the explosion rumbled through the trees. Soon, the roar died down and the five people ran for the base where Shakaju and Heero were. They were now only about two miles away from the base and ran for it.
About a mile into the run, they met a familiar face. Heero was running toward them. Relena thought about running up to him and giving him a hug, but it the state he was in now, he would probably beat her within an inch of her life. Heero reached them and stared at the smoke in the distance.
�What have you done?!� came Shakaju�s voice from the star on Heero�s chest. He was now wearing a black tank top and long, baggy, black pants.
�What do you think, genius? We could never have defeated Wing Zero, so we got rid of it.� Duo yelled.
Heero�s eyes still held no emotion whatsoever. He was simply staring at the five people before him. Relena looked into his eyes. Hoping to see some trace of Heero in there. Unfortunately, there wasn�t. Not that she could see anyway.
The four gundam pilots dashed into the bushes, Duo pulling Relena along, and waited. Heero looked around, trying to see if he could find them. Duo told Relena to stay put and climbed up a tree. He got to a branch just above Heero and dropped onto his back. Heero didn�t fall back as planned, but instead stood still and tried his best to fling the Shinigami off. Duo held on tight and yelled for the others to come and help. Trowa tackled Heero, sending him to the earth, (Duo jumped out of the way as to not get smooshed under Heero) and straddled his stomach,. Duo grabbed one arm and held it down, while Quatre held the other down. Wufei appeared and drew his fist back to destroy the star.
Heero stopped struggling, raised his foot, and landed a kick to Wufei�s stomach. Wufei reeled back, his arms concealed covering his stomach. Heero then brought his foot up and kicked Trowa in the back of the head. Trowa dropped to Heero�s side, then stumbled a few feet away, leaning on a tree. Heero threw his feet into the air and rolled his body over his head and once he righted himself, he was squatting on his feet with Duo and Quatre trying their best to hold on. He snapped his fists upward, causing the two to lose their grip. They jumped away before he could do any further damage.
Trowa and Wufei regained composure and decided to try again. Duo slammed his foot in front of him, giving the illusion that he was going to attack. Heero prepared for the attack, but wasn�t expecting Trowa to tackle him again. He was caught off guard and hit the ground with a thud! As soon as Quatre and Duo had a hold of his arms, Trowa grabbed both of his legs and held them down as well. Wufei approached once again. Heero jerked back and forth, trying to lift the pilots off of him, but in the position he was in, this was not easily accomplished. Wufei drew back and landed a hard punch to Heero�s chest. Heero groaned as the three gundam pilots abandoned their positions and left Heero to figure out where he was.
They backed up as Heero held his head and stumbled around blindly for a moment. The broken mind star fell from beneath his shirt and lay on the ground. Heero looked at the four gundam pilots. Did he know these guys? He thought so. He wasn�t sure.
Relena saw that they had destroyed the star and leapt from the bushes, then ran up to him until she was about three feet away. Heero looked at her. Her eyes looked excited and worried at the same time. Relena broke into a smile when she saw his eyes. There was a bit of emotion there. Heero was taking over.
He stared at her, and something, he guessed it was a memory, flashed in his mind. He instantly grabbed it.
Relena said nothing, but fell into Heero�s chest, wrapping her arms around him and crying softly. Heero was kind of surprised at her reaction, but he wrapped his strong arms around her as well, trying his best to comfort her. As soon as he pulled her close to him, she settled down. He savored the feeling of holding her, feeling her pressed against him, knowing that he could comfort her.
Relena felt Heero return her embrace. As soon as his arms had tightened around her, she no longer felt afraid. His strong, powerful arms gave her a feeling that nothing on earth could hurt her. However, the nightmare hadn�t been one where she was hurt, it had been Heero who was killed. She could hardly cope with the thought of him dead. She loved the fact that she was this close to him. She knew she was the first person that Heero had remotely opened up to, and she felt special.
Heero continued to hold her and stroke her golden hair until he felt her relax against him and he knew she had fallen asleep. Her arms went limp around his chest, and he slowly put her back in bed. He covered her up with the blankets and returned to his chair. He looked over at her as she slept. The electricity that came from being close to her seemed to still be surging through his body. He shook it off and forced himself to look back at the lake. Tonight, there was no shadow standing on the balcony. Although, Heero could not shake the feeling that the rest of the night would not go smoothly.
Heero looked at Relena. She was the girl in the memory! But why? Was this in his past?
You have no past! Said a voice he knew to be his master�s. I am your only past! You belong to me! Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying! Now kill all of them!
Heero shook his head. Who was he to disobey his master? Wait, why was he his master? What made him master? What am I thinking?! My master is always right. Isn�t he? Or is there� no! I shouldn�t listen to him, or should I? He is master. And I obey my master. But why is he my master?
Heero gripped his head harder and yelled in frustration. Who was he? Why was he listening to his Master when he felt like he shouldn�t. Suddenly, three words came out of his mouth that made no sense to him whatsoever.
�R-R-Relena� help� me�� he cried quietly. He had no idea why he was calling for this girl. Heck, he didn�t think he even knew her. Or did he?
Relena looked painfully at Heero as he stumbled around, yelling. She knew she had to bring him around. She was the only one who could. And after what he had said, she knew she could do it. She approached a few steps and tried her best to jog his memory. �Heero! Remember that motorcycle ride you took me on? The one we took to your apartment to see if there was something in your food! Do you remember?� she shouted.
Heero looked at her. An image flashed to his mind. Motorcycle ride?
Heero partially turned his head toward Relena to speak. �You okay?�
�Yeah!� she yelled back. The two had to yell to communicate because of the sound of the rushing wind.
�Ready to go faster?�
�Yeah! Sure!�
Heero twisted the handle bar a tiny bit more, and the bike lurched foreward, gaining speed at an incredible rate. Over the course of about ten minutes, Heero went faster and faster, as Relena adjusted to the feel. However, they had only gotten to about fifty miles an hour when they realized that they needed to get going.
Heero turned the bike and they headed out of the Sanc Kingdom. They got out onto the main road and soon hit the freeway. Heero twisted the handle bar so they hit around sixty miles an hour. Relena suddenly grabbed him around the chest as the bike sped up. Heero looked down at her hands and took his left hand off of the handle for a second to pat her hand a bit reassuringly. He then quickly replaced it.
There she was in the vision again! She did mean something to him, but he couldn�t remember what! She was someone very important to him, but why was his master trying to make him kill her?
Relena saw that he was remembering things. She kept trying. �And do you remember that trick I played on you when we went swimming?!�
Heero stopped once again. S-Swimming?
Relena was quite far out when she began screaming. �Heero! Help! My leg cramped up! Help me!!�
In an instant, Heero had thrown his green tank top off, and dove into the water, swimming for her at top speed. But when he reached her, she stopped screaming.
�PSYCH!!� she cried.
Heero gasped quietly as she put her hand on the top of his head and shoved him under. When she released him, he came up out of the water and groaned a bit. He then shoved her underwater briefly and began swimming back to shore. As he reached the shore, she called to him.
�You know, the funny thing is; I can do that as many times as I want to, and you have to come and �save� me!� she held up two fingers on each hand and curled them a few times.
Heero rolled his eyes and replaced his shirt.
She was in his head all the time! Wait! That�s it! He had loved her!! But, then, his master must be an enemy! He was trying to make him kill the person he loves. But how?! Wait! That night when he had� he had tried to protect Relena because he thought� he thought that they were after her, but they were really after him! And his master had� had tried to make him kill them! No!
In an instant, a rain of kicks was unleashed on his back. He hardly winced at all as Relena looked fearfully up at his face. Eventually, the pain became serious as bruises were formed, then covered once again in kicks. Heero squeezed his eyes shut as more and more pain seemed to come. Relena�s eyes clouded over with worry as she watched the increasingly painful expression grow on the man�s face.
�Heero!� she cried quietly.
Heero opened one pain filled eye and looked at her. He took his arms off of the wall, supporting his weight and the weight of the kicks with his head, which was against the wall, and wrapped his arms around her shoulders, pulling her close to his body. She put her hands up on his chest, receiving his hug. She could feel how his body lurched foreward as each kick landed on his already bruised back. She pressed herself closer to him in an effort to comfort him�
Relena once again pressed herself against Heero�s chest in an attempt to comfort him from the rain of pain. Suddenly, Heero�s arms were pulled from around her, and jerked behind his back by two shadows. He was jerked to his feet as another two shadows grabbed Relena. One put her in a headlock and pressed a gun to her temple. He yelled at the three remaining gundam pilots. �No one move! Stay where you are!� he commanded�
Heero lifted his arms as she hugged him. Who was this girl? What was wrong with her? Whoever she was, Master didn�t want him associating with her. So, he�d have to get her off.
He grabbed her shoulders and squeezed lightly, although, it caused her to cry out. He pulled her away and then let go. He looked at her eyes for a moment, there was something familiar to them, before backhanding her across the face. Relena flew through the air and hit the far wall. She sat shakily up and put a hand to her badly bruised cheek. Tears still poured from her eyes as she looked at Heero, his dead eyes narrowed at her�
Heero�s eyes regained their original look for a moment, before turning back to icy blue. They switched off and on. Relena knew what was happening. Heero was taking over. She smiled. She approached him ever so slowly and put a hand on his arm. He looked down at her, a mix of confusion , hurt and anger set in his eyes. At least they have emotion. She thought.
All heads turned toward where the base was as Shakaju approached them. He stared horrified at Heero, before approaching him and taking his arm. �Come on, Heero. It�s time to go. We�ll let these five go for now, but next time they won�t be so lucky.� He pulled slightly, but Heero stayed put. He looked at Shakaju, his icy blue eyes faltering. Shakaju gasped at this. �No! You can�t go back to them! You�re mine!� he shouted. Heero jerked his arms away from both Relena and Shakaju and stepped back. He turned his eyes on Shakaju first.
�I-I hit her.� He said slowly, referring to Relena. �Because you told me to.� Relena had never heard him speak so timidly in his or her lifetime.
Shakaju stepped back a bit, but he wasn�t going to give up his machine up so easily. �Well, you know that everything I tell you to do is for the best.� He answered quickly.
�But� why should I hit her?! I know you know how much she means to me� so why did you have me hit her??!� Heero questioned.
Trowa took this opportunity to snatch the remote from Shakaju�s pocket. He brought it over to Duo who fiddled with it, until he found the right switch, and the cuffs opened, and dropped from Heero�s wrists. Once this was done, Heero stopped moving altogether, and his eyes returned to being their normal prussian blue. He stared straight ahead, shame evident in his eyes. He looked at Relena.
His legs shook with weakness. He couldn�t stand too much longer. He did his best to try and speak to Relena as his legs threatened to give out. �R-Relena��� g-g-omen.� Heero�s knees finally buckled beneath him and he fell foreward, tears of sorrow and shame pouring from his eyes. It was the first time Heero had allowed himself to cry.
Relena ran up to him and caught him. She felt the familiar feel of his body falling into hers, then supporting him as she lowered him to the ground. She cradled his head against her chest as he quietly cried for the first time in his life.
Shakaju saw that he had lost his weapon and turned to run. But the gundam pilots surrounded him, guns pointed at him. �Don�t you dare move.� Quatre said quietly.
Shakaju remained still and dropped his head in defeat. The gundam pilots smiled at each other then looked over at Heero and Relena. This was good.
Heero: Hn... *blushes slightly* Oi.
Wufei: *sits on Kitty~chan's head and half her body*
Kitty~chan: Hehehehehehehehehehehehehe!
Wufei: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! *jumps off of Kitty~chan holding his rear*
Kitty~chan: *shows off now visible large claws*
Quatre: ok, that's it. you all better get out of here before something really nasty happens. Ja ne!