The Gundam boys were all lying low In a townhouse owned by Quatre's family. Quatre and Trowa had dragged Wofei with them to the movies but Due had told them he wanted to stay home and chill. His definition of ‘chilling' was anoying Heero.

 In the room shared by Duo and Heero, things were pretty much going on as usual. Heero was typing at his laptop completely ignoring the suger high, hyperactive teen who was currently jumping on the bed.

 "Whacha' doin' Heero?" He asked coming to peer over the other's shoulder.

 "Filling out the mission reports." Heero said in a monotone.

 "Oh?" Duo leaned closer so his head touched Heero's and placed his arm on Heero's leg to steady himself.

 Heero turned long enough to knock the other piolet across the room.

 "OW!" Duo rubbed his sore jaw, "That's gonna bruise!"

 "Hn."

 "Hee~ro." Duo said in a sing song voice. "You wanna hear a story?"

 "No."

 "Please Heero-chan?"

 "Don't call me that."

 "Fine then, you tell me a story." Duo insisted sprawling out on the bed.

 Heero slammed his fist into the desk and stood up, he had had enough!

 Duo cringed, Shit! ImdeadImdeadImdead playing through his mind.

 "Fine you want a story," Heero said much too calmly, "Once there was a pilot, a soldier, who wanted only to do his job. But someone thought it would be funny to partner him with a lunatic American. The American would not leave the pilot alone, always talking, never shutting up. What the American didn't realise was that the woman who," Heero cringed, "loved the pilot was the goblin queen. . ."

 Duo snickered.

 "She had given the pilot special powers. He could send the American away forever, but the pilot didn't, he ignored the American until finally after a paticularly trying day the American just wouldn't shut up and let the pilot work and so the pilot called upon the goblins and said, ‘Goblins take this bakara away from me!"

 Duo clapped and whistled, "Good story Heero!"

 "Too bad it didn't work." The pilot hissed as he walked out the door and walked toward the kitchen, "I wish the goblins would take you away."

 Suddenly, Duo's laughter stopped. Mid laugh it had just, . . .  stopped.

 Heero halted when he heard, or rather, when he didn't hear this, and ran back to their room. "Duo?"

 The lights were off, they wouldn't turn back on.

 "Duo? Damn it baka this isn't funny!"

 Lightning lit up the room. The bed was empty.

 "Duo!"

 Suddenly a huge white bird started to bat it's wings against the window. "Hn. Idiot bird I'm gonna. . ." When he opened the glass the bird shot into the room and transformed into a noble looking woman in white leather and silk. "You!" Heero gasped, "You're her aren't you!" He pulled out his gun, "What have you done with Duo?"

 "He is in my castle at the center of the goblin city." Relena grinned, "In the middle of the labyrinth."

 "I want him back!" Heero insisted, pointing the gun at her nose.

 Relena ignored him and held up her hand. A crystal balanced on her fingers, "I have a gift for you my love."

 "I'm not your love!"

 "All of your deepest hopes and dreams."

 "Shove it, give me Duo."

 "You want him, find him. You'll have to go through the labyrinth to get to him though."

 "So? It doesn't look so far."

 "Go back Heero." Relena begged, "We can be together forever. Just go back and forget the American."

 That clinched it, "I'm going."

 Relena pouted and pointed to a gothic clock hanging in midair beside her , "Fine! You have thirteen hours and then Duo will be mine. I'll turn him into something so horrible you have to choose me!" Her voice seamed to echo all around him as she and the clock she had shown him vanished.

 Heero marched up the the wall surrounding the labyrinth and started to walk around it. "Damn it this will take too long." He growled, then he noticed A man in a funny mask walking around the wall and stomping little tiny gundams.

 "Hay gotcha!" He exclaimed with glee then he kicked on with his booted foot, "Woah! Look at that one fly!"

 "Hey you." Heero said.

 "Oh pardon me. . . ah it's just you." The man turned back to his task.

 "Where is the door?"

 "What door?"

 "The door to get in."

 "Get in where?"

 "To the labyrinth!" Heero yelled getting annoyed.

 "The labyrinth is right there."

 "Yes but where is the door!"

 "The door to where?"

 Heero screamed "Omae O Korosu!" And whipped a gun out of his jeans.

 "Ok! Ok! You just aren't asking the right questions!"

 "How do I get into this labyrinth!?"

 "Ah." The man relaxed, "Now that was the right question. Right over there."

 "Finally. . . uh. . ."

 "Zech."

 Heero sneared and stepped inside.

 "Now which way are you going." Zech asked, suddenly in front of him.

 "They're identical!"

 "Well you won't get very far."

 Heero pulled the gun and Zech ran. "Hn. Now to find Duo." He choose the left path and started walking, then started running, but there were no turns! "Damn! Where do I go?!"
 

 "‘ello."

 He looked down to see a funny looking blue worm the lightly resembled Hirde. "Did you just say hello?"

 "No." She smiled, "I said ‘ello, but your close enough."

 Heero picked the thing up between his fingers, "I'm going to squash you."

 "No! No! Wait! I'll show you a turn!"

 "There aren't any."

 "Right behind you!"

 "It's a wall." Heero tightened his grip.

 "No! No! Try walking through it."

 Heero looked at the wall, then at the worm, then he launched the little thing into it and to his surprise, it splatted quite a ways back!, "Hn, you were right." He took the left trail again.

 The worm groaned, "Baka. The other one goes strait to the castle."

 Heero didn't hear.
 
 

 Up in the castle Relena was trying to keep Duo in check until he got through the sugar high but he wouldn't calm down! He started dancing around singing and to Relena's horror her goblins joined in.

 "You remind me of the guy." He laughed to one of the goblins.

 The goblin looked confused, "What guy?"

 "The guy with the power." He grinned to another one.

 "What power."
 

 Duo put on his best scary face, "The power of voodoo!" He laughed when the goblin fell of it's seat.

 "Who do?"

 "You do."

 "Do what?"

 "Remind me of the guy."

 By now Relena's head was reeling. But Duo kept on dancing around, his braid whipping around his head. And his rear swinging in his obscenely tight jeans.

  "I saw my Heero, cryin' hard as he could cry, what could I do? My Heero's heart had gone and left my Heero blue, no body knew! What kind of magic spells to use!"

 "Slime and snails." One goblin offered.

 Duo nodded, "Good one."

 "Puppy dog tails."

 "Yuck!"

 "Thunder and lighting!"

 Duo jump turned to Relena and smiled, "And Heero say's. . .?"

 Relena's face was bright red, "Omae o Korosu!!!!"

 "That's right!" Duo laughed and Relena shrieked.
 
 

 Far of in the Labyrinth Heero hear the manical laughter and the shriek and grinned, "Maybe by the time I get there she'll just give him back." He pulled a piece of marking chalk out of his pocket and marked the stone ground with an arrow to tell himself where he'd been. But what he didn't see was that as soon as he had turned, a little Goblin started swearing at him and turned it back over, "Your father wore high heals! You just had to make more work for me didn't you?!  mumble mumble. . ."
 
 

 Duo danced around the throne room still singing. Relena was close to pulling her hair out! "I saw my Heero, trying hard as he could try, what could I do?  My Heero's love was gone and left my Heero bl~ue no body knew! What kind of magic spells to use?!"

 The goblins were really getting into this, "Slime and snails."

 "Or puppy dog tails." The started dancing around.

 "Thunder and lightning."

 "And Heero says."

 Relena had had enough, "SHUT UP!!!"

 Duo grinned ear to ear, "That's right!"

 Relena grabbed the ningen and shoved him to a couple big goblins, "Throw him into the Obliette!"

 "Not the Obliette!" Duo cried squirming the he went still, "What is an Obliette?"

"A place you put annoying little ningens to forget about them! Get him out of my sight!"

 The goblins dragged Duo of and Relena glanced at the clock. "Well Heero, in nine hour and thirty seven minuets, Duo will be one of mine."
 
 

 Heero marked another stone and walked around the corner only to be faced with a dead end. "Hn." He turned around and noticed the arrow he had drawn had turned around too. "Someone has been changing my marks!"

 "Of course they have." A voice said from behind him. Heero spun on his heels to face two creatures that looked like playing cards! Each had too heads, one on top and one on bottom. "What. . . this was a dead end!" Heero exclaimed.

 "This? Naw, that's the dead end behind you."

 Heero turned around and went sd for a second, "It keeps changing! This isn't fair! How will I get to the castle now!"

 "Well the only way there is through one of these door." The cards said.

 The red one spoke, "One leads to the castle."

 The blue one grinned, "The other leads to certain death."

 "Ohhhhhhh!" All four heads shivered.

 "Well which is which?" Heero asked.

 "You can only ask one of us."

 "And I should warn you, One of us always tells the truth."

 "And one of us always lies."

 "He always lies."

 "I always tell the truth."

 "Oh what a lie!"

 Heero rolled his eyes and shot them both then took the left door, "This isn't so ba. . . aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He screamed as he suddenly fell.

 Grey, clayish hands caught him. "Ow! Get off of me!"

 "We're helping." Said a face made but a group pf the hands.

 "Let go!"

 "Which way?" another face asked.

 "Nani?"

 "Up?" one set said.

 "Or down?" Another offered.

 "Put. . . me. . . DOWN!" Heero screamed.

 "He choose down." The hands snickered and let go.

 "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" Heero landed hard on a rocky shelf set into a wall and surrounded on three sides by a huge chasm. "K'so!"

 "Hm." A sleeper's moan came in the pitch blackness.

 "Who's there?" Heero couldn't see a thing. Suddenly he felt hands on his chest and a firm body behind him. Caressing him. Heero moaned and layed his head back on a muscular but slim shoulder. Softly firm lips caught his and he moaned again.

 "Mmm." The voice sighed, "Just feel."

Whoever it was was half asleep judging by the breath and voice tone. The voice sound familiar to Heero but at the moment he couldn't care less. He kissed back enjoying the heat welling up inside. I know this feeling, this person. . . who . . . "Uhng!!!" He arched into the shadow lover and heard a matching cry. Heero groped in the dark until he found the one who was making him feel this. His hands sought out the boys chest and teased his nipples into erection. Then kissed each one in turn, sucking gentle, rolling them with his tongue. "Mmm."

 "Ahhhh!" The shadow gasped and lay Heero back, still kissing, still touching.
 
 

 Relena watched through her crystal in Horror. "He's in the Obliette!"

 The goblines laughed and cheered.

 "Idiots! He shouldn't have gotten that far! He should have given up by now and confessed his love to me!" She growled and pulled Duo back into the throne room through a portal. "No matter." She smiled and dumped the boy into the stone floor. "He'll give up after Zech leads him all the way back to the beginning."
 
 

 Heero snarled. His shadow lover had been snatched right into thin air and vanished! He cursed and pounded his fist into the wall.

 "Achem." Zech cleared his throat to make himself known.

 "What do you want?"

 "I want to show you a way out of here. It just so happens I know a shortcut out of the whole Labyrinth from here."

 "No."

 "Nani?!"

 "I said no. I need to find Duo."

 "But. . ."

 Heero pulled his gun again and Zech cowered before the psychotic youth. "How do I get out?"

 The man picked up a piece of wood and set it against the wall the opened it like a door. A shower of junk fell on top of him and a boxing glove smacked him in the face holding a note that said, "Duo was here."

 Zech's eyes narrowed but he closed the door and opened it from the other direction.  It was a tunnel.

 Heero kept the gun to Zechs head as they walked. They passed through a tunnel made of stone faces.

 "Go back!" One said.

 "This path leads to nothing!"

 "Don't listen to them." Zech assured, "False alarms."

 "Beware. . ."

 "Oh shut up!" Zech screeched.

 Heero just shot the mouth off of it.

 "That works too." Zech admitted.

 A crystal sphere rolled across the floor in front of them and Heero followed it with his eyes as it jumped into the alms cup of a ragged looking beggar.

 Zechs cringed.

 "Where are you going?" The beggar asked in a rickety voice.

 "No where!" Zechs said, shaking.

 "No where!" The beggars voice got higher and the costume was shed to reveal Relena. "No where tra -la-la?"

 "OH!" Zech shuddered.

 "How do you like my maze so far?" She asked Heero.

 He growled at her, "Piece of cake."

 Relena grinned and pulled up the clock again, "Lets up the excitment a little." She said, taking five hours off of it. "Four hours to go."

 "That isn't fair!"

 "What is your basis of judgment?" She glared at Zech then, "If I didn't know better I would say you were helping him. And if you did you know I would dip you head first into the bog of eternal stench."

 "No!" Zech pleaded, "Not the bog of eternal stench! I'd stink forever!"

 "Yes, Zech."

 "I was just doing like you ordered. Taking him back to the beginning."

 Heero shot him.

 Relena jumped back, "That was a little accesive!" She breathed looking at the corpse.

 "He lied to me."

 "He could have been lying to me." She reasoned.

 "Can't trust liars. Bad to deal with."

 Relena took the crystal in her hands and laughed as she faded out, "Well see if you can deal with this." She smashed it into the wall and A huge contraption of blades and saws came down the tunnel at him.

 Heero ran until he reached a dead end and finally blew a hole in the stone wall just before the thing would have crushed him. He glanced around where he had ended up, "A ladder." He grinned, "Perfect." And he started climbing toward his next challenge. "I'll find you Duo." He promised.
 

~tbc~