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This story is dedicated to Dark Angel for getting me interested in writing again, and to my sister who really helped me with my writer's block when I needed her. Thanks!!

The Trouble With the Truth Part Two: Time Marches On.

By: Msmelanie

Chapter Seventeen: Geoci-whats-its?

"Well, well, well. It's nice to have some visitors for once." Dr. J. laughed as he saw the former pilots.

Duo ran up to him and pinned him against the wall. "Where's Michael?"

Dr. J. looked at him. "Well, if you let me go, then maybe we can talk."

Quatre ran over to both of them. "Is Dominic alright? Where is he?!"

"He's not here." Dr. J said. "Will you please let go of me now?"

"Where are they?" Trowa asked.

"Well, if you just let go of me then maybe I could tell you." Dr. J. said as he looked at Duo through his thick glasses.

Dr. J...Heero growled. He went over to Dr. J. and pushed Duo out of the way. He grabbed the doctor and pinned him up, while pulling a knife out of his pocket and putting it under Dr. J.'s chin. "No more small talk. Where are the kids?"

Dr. J looked at Heero. "Well, well. I didn't know you adapted to your happy family life already."

Heero held the knife closer.

"Okay, okay!" Dr. J. shouted. "The kids are not in this time, but I can take you to when they are!"

"You have more time machines?" Wufei asked.

"Seven of them." Dr. J. replied.

Wufei looked around. "Where? There is nothing but Gundams in this place."

Dr. J. looked at Wufei. "I designed them in seven of the Gundams."

"Seven?!" Duo asked. "How did you do that?!"

Dr. J. simply replied. "I knew the Dr.'s would plan something so I made five out of the ones you used last time." Dr. J. looked at the pilots. "You took so long though, and there wasn't anything else to do, so I decided to make a couple more."

Duo looked at Dr. J. "You mean you made two extra because you were bored?"

"Enough chit chat!" Heero growled. "Are the scientists still planning to blow up the asteriod?"

"Well, not quite." Dr. J. replied.

"Not quite! What's that mean?!" Quatre shouted. "What are they doing with my Dominic?!"

"Well, they're..." Dr. J. said slowly. "They are planning to..."

"Planning to what?" Heero growled.

Dr. J. looked at Heero. "If I tell you, you may get excited with that knife Heero."

Heero glared at Dr. J. "If you don't tell me, I'll get excited with this knife right now."

Dr. J. looked at Heero's eyes. The boy isn't kidding..."Alright, then I will tell you."

Heero looked at Dr. J. "Talk."

Dr. J. looked at Heero. "Do you know what Geocilacinabenaphilotrisene is?"

Heero just looked at Dr. J. "There is no such thing."

"Yes, there is!" Dr. J. shouted. "After the fate of the colonies the Earth created it to save itself."

"So this Geocilatoohoo whatchamacallit  is that stuff that saved the sank kingdom?" Duo asked.

"Yes, it was." Dr. J. said. "Some believed that if we had done a...different method...then we would have succeeded in saving the entire earth. Our leader, at the time  Ms. Relena Dorlain, didn't want to risk it."

"Risk what?" Heero asked.

Dr. J. looked at Heero. "Risk all the lives on everyone on Earth. You see, the scientists had created a radical form of-"

"Don't say that long word again." Duo whined.

"Fine then, we'll shorten them. The scientists had created a radical form of Geoci called Geoxi. They wanted to send up four mobile suits into each of the hemispheres. They would explode while they were filled with Geoxi. The earth would be blanketed from the explosion, and all would be safe."

"Well, why didn't Relena want to risk it?" Quatre asked.

Dr. J. looked hard at Quatre. "There had been plenty of proof that Geoci worked beforehand, but the scientists had no proof that Geoxi would work. With it's extreme unstableness, each mobile suit could have very well caused an explosion the size of a hydrogen bomb."

Quatre looked at Duo and laughed nervously. "Yeah, I don't think I would want to risk that either."

"They wanted to though." Dr. J. said. "The first time they didn't think they would need such a dangerous approach as Geoxi yet. When you showed up and ruined their plans, they decided they would go to plan B."

"Plan B?" Duo asked. "How do you know they went to plan B?"

Dr. J. smiled. "They may have had some of the girls things tapped, but I also have a few taps on them too."

Heero looked at Dr. J. "That sounds like something you'd do. So, what is plan B?"

Dr. J. looked at Heero."Well, they plan on using Neo as the destroyer of the asteroid, while the other three will take the Gundams to the correct coordinates and..."

"And?" insisted             Quatre.

"Let the gundams blow up with Geoxi." Dr. J. replied.

"What?!" Duo shouted. "They don't know what will happen?!"

"Yes, but that has always been why we work in secret. We have never known the results." Dr. J. replied.

Heero looked at Dr. J. briefly. "Your not making sense. You were afraid I'd kill you if you talked." Heero growled. "Tell the whole truth."

Dr. J. looked at him. "I told you the important stuff,  just jump into the Gundams already?!"

Heero brought the knife even closer to Dr. J.'s throat and growled.

Dr. J. looked at Heero and sighed. "They only plan on having Neo come back alive."

"What?!" Duo, Quatre, and Trowa shouted.

Dr. J. looked at them. "They don't care about the Earth. They never have!"

The pilots looked at Dr. J.

Dr. J. looked at the pilots. "They plan on letting the Earth suffer, and just save the colonies. They are only hitting the asteroid so it doesn't hit any of the colonies that were in it's way. With no Earth, there will be no more war. They wil let Neo survive to protect the colonies, but they don't need four children to protect the colonies." Dr. J. looked at the pilots again. "Besides if they do, they have two children to fall back on."

The pilots stood silent.

"They will not take Mingh Loh!" Wufei shouted.

"They won't, unless they need to." Dr. J. replied.

"Why are they keeping Neo?" Trowa asked quietly.

Dr. J. smiled. "Like father, like son."

Heero growled at Dr. J. "Or so they believe!" Dr. J. quickly replied.

Duo made his hand into a fist. "No one's going to take my family away again. Nobody!" Duo yelled as he went toward the nearby Deathscythe he used last time. "How's this thing work?"

"It's already set." Dr. J. said. "Just push in the little lever on the right when you want to leave and come back.

The guys quickly got into their replicated models.

This time they won't get away... the guys thought as they pushed in their levers.

"Good luck." Dr. J. said. He started to walk away when he saw something.

"What are you doing here?!" Dr. J. shouted