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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 Eighteen: Good News and Bad News.

"Where are we?" Duo asked as he looked around him.

Heero checked the coordinates. "This must be where the kids are at."

Quatre checked his coordinates. "Wait! This is about five minutes before we left the first time!"

"Great, then we won't accidentally run into ourselves." Duo replied. "Now where are those kids..."

To the kids...

"Are you ready?" Professor G. asked Neo.

"Yes." Neo replied.

"What is your mission?" Dr. S. asked Neo.

"To destroy the asteroid." Neo replied.

"Good. What are your missions?" Dr. S asked the other children.

"To sacrifice ourselves in an effort to save the colonies." they said stoically together.

"Open the roof!" Professor G. shouted. The roof was opened and the kids moved out.

Back to the guys...

"Look, there's one of them!" Duo shouted as he saw Deathscythe coming toward them. "I'll handle this one!"

Duo moved toward the Deathscythe. "Michael, are you in there?!"

"How do you know my name?" A voice growled from behind the Gundam.

"Michael! Hey, you want a banana-hot fudge sundae?!" Duo yelled sure his plan would work again.

"No, I must accomplish my mission." Michael replied monotonously.

"What?" Duo replied as he watched Michael fly away.

They can't keep their old attitudes...Duo thought. Guess I better tell them. Duo spoke into his intercom. "Hey, pilots! They don't have any of there old attitude inside this time. They're completely brainwashed!"

"Oh, that's not good!" Quatre shouted out as he saw the rest of the kids' Gundams coming. "What do we do?!"

"Fight them!" Wufei yelled. He was about to start fighting the kids' Gundams when he realized something out of the corner of his eye. Fighting the kids were not only Deathscythe, Sandrock, Heavyarms, but Wing Zero and another Nataku. Yuy's going after Neo, so who could be in those mobile suits? "Who are you?!" he shouted.

"Take a guess otoko!" he heard the other Nataku say to him.

"Mingh Loh?!" Wufei shouted. "Onna, what are you doing here?!"

"We are here to help my brother and our friends." Wing Zero replied.

"Rei?!" Wufei shouted. Wufei shouted on his intercom. "We have a problem. Mingh Loh and Rei are here!"

"Rei?!!" Heero shouted as he was moving towards Neo. "How?!"

"My guess is they snuck on the van when we weren't looking." Quatre replied.

Wufei looked at Mingh Loh. "Onna, go home right now!"

"No, I will not back down! My friends need me!" Mingh Loh shouted through her intercom. "Besides, I fight better than you!"

Wufei growled and didn't reply.

"Rei, go back home now." Heero said calmly.

Rei didn't answer.

"Rei..." Heero began. "I have survived much, but I don't want to die by the hands of Relena. Go home."

Rei just giggled.

"Damn!" Duo shouted to the others. "How come these kids are twice as good as before! We can't even gang up on them!"

Wing Zero came towards the Heavyarms. She waited for Mingh Loh to distract it. Then she went through the middle and sliced off it's leg.

"That should slow him down." Mingh Loh said.

A little while later...

Michael, Jimmy, and Dominic's Gundams were put out of commission, but the kids didn't give up.

"Our mission is to sacrifice ourselves for the good of the colonies." Michael said over his intercom.

Duo stood still for a moment. "Oh no! They want to self-destruct!"

"What?!" Quatre shouted. "Dominic, No!"

"No, there has to be something around here! This can't be happening!" Duo cried out as he started to push all the buttons in his Deathscythe.

"Calm down." Rei replied as she shot a bluish light onto the Deathscythe.

"What? What in the heck am I doing?!" Michael shouted as he stopped himself from pushing a giant red button.

"Michael, your back!" Duo shouted.

"Hey, what's up Duo?!" Michael shouted back.

"How did you do that?!" Quatre shouted at Rei.

"The small button on your left that's blue." Mingh Loh replied. "Dr. J. said he forgot to tell you, so he showed us before we left."

Quatre and Trowa pushed their blue buttons and shot a bluish light toward Dominic and Jimmy.

"Hey, if you knew about that option the whole time...why didn't you use it in the first place?!" Duo shouted at them.

"Well, we wanted to fight a little." Mingh Loh replied.

Duo smacked his forehead. They're Wufei's and Heero's, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. "Wufei, did you hear your daughter?"

Wufei didn't reply.

"Well, Duo? What do I do now?" Michael asked.

Duo looked at Michael's Deathsythe. "Get out, kid. There should be a little button on the side or something."

Michael looked around. "Duo, all the little buttons got covered up. There isn't anything to push."

"What do you mean?" asked Duo.

"Umm, Quatre?" Dominic interrupted. "Q-quatre? There's a clock with red numbers that seems to be counting down."

"Yeah, I see that in mine, too. It's a broken clock." Michael replied to Dominic.

The pilots looked at each other.

"We have to get them out of there now!" Duo shouted.

"Dominic, can you open your Gundam?" Quatre asked.

"No, everything's sealed off." Dominic replied.

Suddenly, an image of Professor G. appeared on everyone's screen. "We didn't think Dr. J. actually had anything to counter us, interesting. Too bad for him we're sore losers. How fast can you pilots move to deactivate the bombs and avoid those lovely space mines?" Professor G. laughed.

"You know, I don't like the sound of that." Duo said.

"Although, we are somewhat sporting. You just need to deactivate one bomb to deactivate all of them." Professor G. said right before he went off the screen.

"Jimmy." Trowa asked. "What does your timer say?"

Jimmy looked at his red-numbered clock. "Five minutes, nineteen seconds."

Wufei looked over at the girls. "Get out of here now!"

The girls left when Deathscythe started moving.

"Aaahhh, Duuooo! Heelp Meeee!" Michael yelled as he started to move. Then Dominic and Jimmy's started to move away.

"Wait up, kid!" Duo yelled as he tried to go after Michael but he saw that they were heading right into...

"Oh no! Not now!" Duo yelled as he narrowly missed a space mine. "Michael, hang on!"

Quatre caught up with Dominic, but Dominic's Sandrock started to fight him.

"Quatre, what do I do?!" Dominic shouted.

Quatre looked at Dominic. "Hang on, Dominic!" Quatre shouted as he narrowly missed Dominic's Gundam. Quatre took his shotels and sliced the the door open to Dominic's Gundam. "Jump out, Dominic!"

Dominic jumped out while Quatre jumped in. Dominic moved to Quatre's Sandrock, but Dominic's Sandrock started to move again.

"Oh, why me?!" Quatre shouted as he was flipped all over. He tried to concentrate on the timer. He shouted out on the intercom. "Pilots! I have some good news and bad news!"

Trowa was fighting Jimmy's Gundam. "What's the good news?"

"I'm in Dominic's Gundam!" Quatre shouted.

Wufei shot through another wave of space mines. "What's the bad news?"

"I know nothing about bombs!" Quatre shouted.

Duo narrowly missed an attack from Michael's Gundam. "Quatre, after this we're going to have a talk about explosives one on one!"

"Duo, what do I do?! The timer says two minutes and twenty nine seconds?!" Quatre shouted.

"Oh shit!!" Duo yelled. "What's the wires look like?"

Quatre did his best to get underneath the bomb. "There's a red, green, and blue one!"

"Red, green, and blue one?" Duo asked. "Are you 100% positive there is not a yellow one?!" Duo said as he was locked in scythes with Michael.

Quatre looked around. "I'm positive there's only two!"

"Then one's a dummy wire!" Duo shouted.

"Which one, Duo! We got one minute and thirty four seconds left!" Quatre yelled.

"I can't be sure if I can't see it!" Duo shouted as Michael pushed his scythe back. "Most of the time it's the blue one!"

"Are you sure?!" Quatre shouted.

"Winner, cut the blue wire already!" Wufei shouted.

"Alright, here goes nothing!" Quatre said as he took a knife out of his pocket and cut the blue wire.

"Quatre, did the numbers stop?!" Duo yelled.

"Yes, Duo!" Quatre shouted relieved. 2 seconds left? That was cutting it way too close.