Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Hidden Bloodlines ❯ Oh Christmas tree! ( Chapter 11 )
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By: jupiterschild 
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Comedy | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 02.20.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.7K | Visits: 491 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Comedy | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 02.20.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.7K | Visits: 491 | Status: Completed
Chapter 11
[Conversations in Gundams]
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Conversation was kept to a bare minimum as the pilots prepared for their mission - after all what could be said? Most of the pilots were still in shock, or vastly unhappy over what they had discovered.
The Gundams were required; they'd been hidden down in the estates _rather_ large hanger - Quatre _still_ hadn't worked out what it was there for but he was grateful for it.
It was hoped that the sight of five Gundams on the way to stomp them flat would shake the enemy up just a little. or at least make them extremely nervous. Duo had taken to calling it 'Mission: Overkill' and his fellow pilots agreed with him.
It really was a simple mission- go in, get the hostage / experiment victim, read the jerks their rites, get out and make like the fourth of July. The powers that be - also known as Une, had decided that leaving the base in tact was too big of a risk. The boys were just following orders.
Duo wasn't complaining, in fact he was extremely happy about that part of the orders, he hadn't blown up anything larger than part of the kitchen in far too long, Fatima still hadn't forgiven him for that either. He had to admit though some of the chemistry experiments they were doing at the moment had potential.
They were well on the way to their designated target before Quatre broke the com silence, even Duo wasn't' talking for once - not that he talked all the time, he slept didn't he? Usually he chatted to Wufei at least.
"Three of my sisters are Sailor Senshi," Quatre's voice was slightly stilted and very chilly "Did anybody _know_ about this?"
Quatre was calm, really he was. That wasn't steam coming out of his ears and that look didn't promise pain if anyone said 'yes' really it didn't.
After a few of the other pilots were game enough to voice their negative responses Duo spoke up.
[[I didn't know about your _sisters_ perse. But I knew that their cats weren't exactly normal. You don't call talking normal do you?]]
From the various looks he got he decided that it was a unanimous 'no' and expanding on that statement might be a good idea.
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2-3 weeks previously
"Coffee." Duo staggered into the kitchen making a beeline for the sacred coffee machine - worshipped by most people living on the Winner estate. Especially the Manguanacs assigned to guarding Minako and Usagi.
"CoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeeCOFF EE!!!"
It had been a rough night. Scratch that. The day before had been harsh then _it_ had been followed by a rough night. Duo didn't care if he was late for school today he was going. To. Get. His. Coffee!!
Yesterday had started off with Fatima's _lovely_ version of a wake up call. He had a feeling she was still a bit ticked off with the. little explosion in her kitchen the other day. He knew he was a cheerful person but he was not a morning person. As far as he was concerned 6 o'clock only happened in the evenings thank you very much. But Fatima! That woman was _far_ too cheerful during those non-existent and far too early hours of the morning - so was Rashid for that matter. Duo had discovered the perils of ignoring Fatima's wake up call, he was glad he didn't live on the same side of the house as Usagi and Minako but being tipped out of bed - literally - was not his idea of fun, well not for a wakeup call anyway. Of course Wufei had thought it was hilarious but he hadn't been in bed had he, no he'd gotten up to do katas _earlier_. Duo shuddered at the thought of getting up that early voluntarily.
Then on top of all that he'd almost run late for school - not that it really mattered but he'd missed his cup of coffee. Let's just say he wasn't a happy camper and leave it at that.
_Then_ Haruna-sensei had thrown a pop quiz, that woman was _evil_! He'd had such a busy day at school it wasn't funny and he didn't even
want to think about the hoard of girls who'd chased him at lunch. And he thought _Heero_ attracted psychos! Some of the girls at that school were scarier than the thought of Dorothy on the Zero system - or Usagi and Minako in a mall with unlimited credit cards.
The evil beings known as 'teachers' who should have been called 'evil, mean and nasty torturers determined to make life miserable' had assigned a _pile_ of homework he'd had to plow through taking up most of the evening. Then, to top it all off, just as he was getting ready to settle down for bed with Wu Heero had come bursting in to tell them the Senshi had been spotted in the city.
As a result they'd spent half the night chasing the mini-skirted super hero's all over Juuban. At least he'd only been knocked into one wall by Pluto - that woman was far too slaphappy with that key thing of hers. However he had managed to miss being turned into a Popsicle and had made quite a few large dents in various Youma.
He was _definitely_ looking forward to hi coffee this morning - he didn't care if he was late - detention was worth it. Shinigami help anyone who got between him and his coffee - they'd end up wishing for a visit from Him.
Then banging of the cat-flap alerted him to the arrival of either Usagi's or Minako's cats, Luna and Artemis. There was something _very_ strange about those two felines - their responses seemed too intelligent. Sometimes he could _swear_ they were almost human. He'd spoken to Trowa about it but he'd just shrugged and said that cats were highly intelligent anyway.
He shifted his focus away from the coffee machine that was refusing to yield his potion yet in time to see Luna stagger into the side of a table and then bounce back and glare at it for having the gall to be in her way. Duo snickered, it seemed he wasn't the only being in the house who was _that_ tired, "Morning Luna!"
He really wasn't expecting much in the way of a reply, a meow at the most, which is why he dropped the empty mug he'd been waiting to fill when he got one.
"Morning Duo."
Luna froze for a moment then tried to dash from the room.
Duo may have been tired but he was still faster. He caught her within two strides and lifter her up to eye level hands beneath her front legs and keeping her out of striking range.
"You spoke! Do it again!"
"Meow??" He hadn't realized that cats could look sheepish before now.
"Nice try," he gave her a little shake "I'm not buying. Talk!!"
They must have stared at each other for a full five minutes. Duo was grateful that no one came down in that time - they would have thought he was nuts. It was obvious he outstared Luna though, because she finally hung her head and with a sigh began to speak.
"Please! Don't tell anyone else! It's very important that no one knows!"
It had been an interesting conversation to say the least. He'd spoken to Artemis later that afternoon, he liked that cat he was quite a character.
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[[So that is what you meant by the cats answering back.]]
[[Yep! I _told_ you there was something suss about those two but would you believe me nooooo. 'Cats are very intelligent Duo.' Well. I have something to say to you Trowa!]] Duo grinned impishly at the screen and blew a raspberry [[TOLD ya so!!]]
Trowa merely arched an eyebrow; amusement twinkled in his visible eye.
[[Ami is Mercury,]] Heero cut in before the conversation degenerated further, [[I was unsure of the others.]]
Duo grinned [[I _knew_ there had to be another reason you were watching her!]]
If Quatre didn't know better he would have sworn that he saw Heero blush faintly. Then again, maybe he did, Duo looked rather smug over _something_.
Quatre was more than a little curious about how Heero had drawn this conclusion. He'd had no idea that Ami - quiet, sensible Ami - was the Sailor Senshi who loved to turn them into Pilot Popsicles.
"And you know this _how_?"
[[Same laptop.]]
Duo started snickering [[You _would_ notice what sort of computer she was using wouldn't you?]] He chuckled, a teasing light entered his eyes, [[You like getting frozen by her don't you? I always thought you were a sucker for punishment!.]]
Heero deigned not to answer but the glare and faint blush really said it all.
Wufei decided to intervene before Wing Zero started powering up its beam cannon and he found himself short a boyfriend. [[I knew Rei was Mars from my previous visit. I have some suspicions about some of the others; a couple of those were confirmed today.]]
Quatre was more than a little stunned. He prided himself on his observational skills yet he hadn't noticed _any_ of this. "And nobody thought to mention this while we cased them all over the city _why_ exactly?"
Wufei had the decency to look slightly ashamed of himself, [[I was threatened with Boyfriend a la flambé if I mentioned it. or the fact that she's dating Yuuichiro]] You could see the faint smirk adorning his face [[And I didn't just say that.]]
Heero was unperturbed by the cold stare Quatre was giving him [[I wanted to discover the rest of their identities before I reported.]]
Duo snorted [[You would,]] he was, however, unable to contain his curiosity. [[lemme guess. You made it a mission? Any ideas on the others?]] He had a few suspicions himself and he wanted to see if they matched the perfect soldiers.
[[Unconfirmed.]]
Now even Trowa was curious, [[Who do you suspect Heero?]]
[[Hn. Most of the inner Senshi, as they call themselves are confirmed,]] he began to rattle off a list of names. A list of very familiar names. All of them were Usagi's best friends, [[Jupiter: Makoto, unconfirmed. Mars: Rei, confirmed. Mercury: Ami 99% confirmed. Cosmos: Usagi, confirmed. Venus: Minako, confirmed. Outer Senshi; one confirmed, one unconfirmed. Uranus: Haruka, confirmed. Neptune: Michiru, 90% confirmed.]]
How could he have missed it? All Usagi's 'study-buddies' were sailor Senshi! "What about Pluto and Saturn? You didn't list any suspicions for them."
[[No suspicions as of yet.]]
[[Admit it Hee-chan you have no idea!]]
[[Hnn.]]
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Getting into the base had been relatively easy. Most of the personnel had taken one look at the approaching Gundams and fled - showing more common sense than most fanatics. The Preventor retinue that was following at a discrete distance had picked them up. The remaining base personnel had put up a small amount of resistance but, after Duo got inventive with some smoke and his speakers, they quickly surrendered. The Preventor retinue also picked up that group. Une wanted the base destroyed with no loss of life if at all possible.
As they searched for the human hostages they planted the bombs. The only sign they had found so far were the scientific records and even those only suggested on person.
Duo was the one to discover him. He was lying on the floor of one of the cells in the lower prison area, bleeding and all together not looking too good.
"Jeez, they must have liked you as much as they used to like us. They sure did a number on you!" He turned and called back down he hallway to the others before cautiously entering the room.
The blonde looked up from where he was lying, "It's the green blood," he cracked a crooked grin as he levered himself upward, wincing as he did so. "For some reason they found it rather interesting."
Trowa blinked as he entered the cell to catch the last comment. Green blood? "Are you even human?" It didn't sound possible. The guy _looked_ human enough, shortish blonde hair, blue eyes and wearing the remains of what looked like a sort of grey uniform with a red trim but humans didn't have green blood.
The blonde grinned disarmingly. Well. he tried to, he ended up wincing again as he pulled on some of his facial injuries. "Apparently I am again now. It turned red again. They found _that_ really interesting."
He shuddered as he remembered some of the experiments that had been conducted on him after that. A lot of them had involved electricity and sharp pointy objects.
"They kept trying to get it to go green again. On command. I am _not_ a set of those. what are they oh yeah. traffic lights _dammit_!" His face took on a dazed yet thoughtful expression.
Upon closer inspection Heero noted that the blonde's eyes weren't quite focussed and that they had a slightly glazed look to them. He had obviously been drugged and whatever they'd given him was still running through his system.
"Although." the crooked grin was back, this time accompanied with a twinkle of mischief in the glazed eyes, "I could be. On, off, on, off, on, off." He began to bounce his head from side to side in time with his chanting. He stopped and grimaced as the movement aggravated his
extensive injuries, "Owwww. Whoa! Head-spin. interesting. Hang on! It hasn't turned orange yet! Damn. That blows that theory out of the water!"
He sighed and turned his head towards Duo. The boys shoulders were shaking with suppressed laughter, tears were running down his cheeks. He found the blonde absolutely hilarious - you had to admire someone who managed to keep a sense of humour after all he'd been through - and he looked like he'd been through hell. The blonde turned his gaze to Wufei who looked like he was caught between the urge to laugh and the urge to worry about just what this guy was and what they'd given him.
"Do you know anyone with orange blood?"
Duo began to snicker. He hid his face between Wufei's shoulder blades to try and muffle the sound. Wufei threw the other pilots a long-suffering look before sighing and answering the odd question that had been posed to him. "I don't know anyone with green blood - let alone
someone with orange!" Though he had noted that some Youma had greenish blood. Like that giant marshmallow... thing from last week.
"You do now! I think. Anybody got something sharp so I can check?"
They all blinked. He _had_ to be kidding. didn't he? It had been said with such a straight face though, it was hard to be _quite_ sure.
Quatre shook himself out of the collective stupor first. They'd spent enough time just standing there, this guy needed medical attention, and possibly psychological too, and he wasn't going to get it lying here. It was well past time to blow this place- literally. He had some sisters waiting to be chewed out at home.
"We're leaving now."
"You're leaving?" the blonde looked almost sad. "Am I going or staying?"
Duo looked at him over Wufei's shoulder, still snickering slightly. "Do you want to be inside or outside when this place goes '_boom_'?"
The blonde seemed to contemplate the question quite seriously. The answer in the mission parameters said 'outside' and making Une unhappy had proved... unwise many times before, so the boys were really hoping for an 'outside' answer.
"Is it more painful or less painful than being run over by a jumbo jet? That _hurts_!"
Wufei felt Duo plant his face back between his shoulder blades, hard. He could hear the not so well muffled sound of his lover's laughter. Sighing he wondered, not for the first time, why he put up with this. "At a rough guess I think it would be _more_ painful."
Quatre blinked furiously, run over by a jumbo jet!? How! The damn things only have one wheel at the front and two on either side. Getting stomped by a Gundam was more likely, but anyway. Couldn't you at least dodge! Really! Quatre decided that his brain had obviously had enough surprises for one day it was beginning to short circuit. he was starting to think like Minako!
"More." The corners of Heero's lips were twitching slightly.
Duo snorted and pulled his face from the back of Wufei's uniform to cast a wry grin at him. "And you'd know wouldn't you? Destructo boy."
"Outside please! If it's not too much trouble for you, my teleportation is shot to hell!" the blonde seemed very cheery all of a sudden "I don't like pain!"
Trowa made his way over to the injured ex-prisoner and, after checking him over for more serious injuries, picked him up carefully.
"You know," The blonde began conversationally as he was lifted off the ground "If I bleed on you, you'll look like a Christmas tree. Red and green, and red and green, and red and green," his eyes were starting to glaze over again. "Maybe they thought I was Santa Claus, what with
being at the North Pole and everything." He began to snicker, which quite quickly turned into hysterical giggling.
Trowa merely arched an eyebrow at the running commentary as he walked towards the hanger where they'd parked their Gundams. There were some transports there that they'd.. appropriated for transporting the Gundams home in. There was no way a hostage would fit in the cockpit with one of them - those things were cramped enough as it was.
Following along behind Trowa and his multi-coloured burden Wufei looked slightly alarmed. "I think he's a little stressed. I doubt he's had too much caffeine," he commented to Duo. Nope, definitely not too much caffeine, a) he wasn't quite talking a mile a minute (1) and b) the giggling didn't sound quite insane enough - though only just.
Duo arched an eyebrow. "Well, if you'd been stuck in here for however long with only these jerks to talk to would you be stressed?"
"Actually," Quatre joined the conversation "I think I'd be more insane than he seems to be."
Duo waved a hand at the giggling blonde in front of them. Wufei caught it before it hit him in the face and tucked it in to his own, "My point exactly."
The blonde, who had been babbling at Trowa the whole time, Trowa could stand it - after all Quatre was related to Usagi and Minako - raised his voice and the monologue travelled back down the hallway, "And I was trapped in that stupid crystal for three years. or was it four? It was three. Yep three uhhhh four, no three, four? Eenie, meanie, minie, mo." He began to quickly count on his fingers frowning when he didn't get the answer he wanted and couldn't come up with the same answer twice in a row. "If I didn't know better, I'd say someone stuffed up the timeline," he muttered half to himself but loud enough for everyone to hear. "Maybe it was Sailor Moon, she looked a _lot_ like 'Ren. Actually, I think she _was_ 'Ren."
Heero blinked. Sailor Moon? A Senshi they hadn't encountered yet? Interesting. Then something else occurred to him, this guy knew the Sailor Senshi??
"It might have been Pluto," the blonde continued to ramble. "She never did like me very much. Might've had something to do with Zoi n' me putting hair dye in her shampoo. But she looked so good with neon purple hair! Dark green is sooooo boring. it did clash with her eyes though, but I mean red eyes ick. She never _did_ like us much after that though. Loved to thwack us with that staffy thing of hers in practice. She can be such a bully!"
Yep. He knew the Sailor Senshi. Pluto at the very least, all of them had been hit with that staff at one time or another, having a key shaped bruise on your forehead was slightly embarrassing.
"You were stuck in a crystal?" Brushing aside the fact that he knew the Sailor Senshi that sounded strange. Then again since they'd all come to Juuban they'd seen a lot of strange things; Youma, Quatre's sisters - turning into Sailor Senshi of course, Umino - that boy was strange, he _still_ wouldn't leave Heero alone death glares just didn't work on him.
The blonde nodded, "Yeah. It was soooo boring in there. No one to talk to nothing. Rocks aren't very good conversationalists, d'you know they wont' even talk telepathically? There were 6483
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Conversation was kept to a bare minimum as the pilots prepared for their mission - after all what could be said? Most of the pilots were still in shock, or vastly unhappy over what they had discovered.
The Gundams were required; they'd been hidden down in the estates _rather_ large hanger - Quatre _still_ hadn't worked out what it was there for but he was grateful for it.
It was hoped that the sight of five Gundams on the way to stomp them flat would shake the enemy up just a little. or at least make them extremely nervous. Duo had taken to calling it 'Mission: Overkill' and his fellow pilots agreed with him.
It really was a simple mission- go in, get the hostage / experiment victim, read the jerks their rites, get out and make like the fourth of July. The powers that be - also known as Une, had decided that leaving the base in tact was too big of a risk. The boys were just following orders.
Duo wasn't complaining, in fact he was extremely happy about that part of the orders, he hadn't blown up anything larger than part of the kitchen in far too long, Fatima still hadn't forgiven him for that either. He had to admit though some of the chemistry experiments they were doing at the moment had potential.
They were well on the way to their designated target before Quatre broke the com silence, even Duo wasn't' talking for once - not that he talked all the time, he slept didn't he? Usually he chatted to Wufei at least.
"Three of my sisters are Sailor Senshi," Quatre's voice was slightly stilted and very chilly "Did anybody _know_ about this?"
Quatre was calm, really he was. That wasn't steam coming out of his ears and that look didn't promise pain if anyone said 'yes' really it didn't.
After a few of the other pilots were game enough to voice their negative responses Duo spoke up.
[[I didn't know about your _sisters_ perse. But I knew that their cats weren't exactly normal. You don't call talking normal do you?]]
From the various looks he got he decided that it was a unanimous 'no' and expanding on that statement might be a good idea.
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2-3 weeks previously
"Coffee." Duo staggered into the kitchen making a beeline for the sacred coffee machine - worshipped by most people living on the Winner estate. Especially the Manguanacs assigned to guarding Minako and Usagi.
"CoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeeCOFF EE!!!"
It had been a rough night. Scratch that. The day before had been harsh then _it_ had been followed by a rough night. Duo didn't care if he was late for school today he was going. To. Get. His. Coffee!!
Yesterday had started off with Fatima's _lovely_ version of a wake up call. He had a feeling she was still a bit ticked off with the. little explosion in her kitchen the other day. He knew he was a cheerful person but he was not a morning person. As far as he was concerned 6 o'clock only happened in the evenings thank you very much. But Fatima! That woman was _far_ too cheerful during those non-existent and far too early hours of the morning - so was Rashid for that matter. Duo had discovered the perils of ignoring Fatima's wake up call, he was glad he didn't live on the same side of the house as Usagi and Minako but being tipped out of bed - literally - was not his idea of fun, well not for a wakeup call anyway. Of course Wufei had thought it was hilarious but he hadn't been in bed had he, no he'd gotten up to do katas _earlier_. Duo shuddered at the thought of getting up that early voluntarily.
Then on top of all that he'd almost run late for school - not that it really mattered but he'd missed his cup of coffee. Let's just say he wasn't a happy camper and leave it at that.
_Then_ Haruna-sensei had thrown a pop quiz, that woman was _evil_! He'd had such a busy day at school it wasn't funny and he didn't even
want to think about the hoard of girls who'd chased him at lunch. And he thought _Heero_ attracted psychos! Some of the girls at that school were scarier than the thought of Dorothy on the Zero system - or Usagi and Minako in a mall with unlimited credit cards.
The evil beings known as 'teachers' who should have been called 'evil, mean and nasty torturers determined to make life miserable' had assigned a _pile_ of homework he'd had to plow through taking up most of the evening. Then, to top it all off, just as he was getting ready to settle down for bed with Wu Heero had come bursting in to tell them the Senshi had been spotted in the city.
As a result they'd spent half the night chasing the mini-skirted super hero's all over Juuban. At least he'd only been knocked into one wall by Pluto - that woman was far too slaphappy with that key thing of hers. However he had managed to miss being turned into a Popsicle and had made quite a few large dents in various Youma.
He was _definitely_ looking forward to hi coffee this morning - he didn't care if he was late - detention was worth it. Shinigami help anyone who got between him and his coffee - they'd end up wishing for a visit from Him.
Then banging of the cat-flap alerted him to the arrival of either Usagi's or Minako's cats, Luna and Artemis. There was something _very_ strange about those two felines - their responses seemed too intelligent. Sometimes he could _swear_ they were almost human. He'd spoken to Trowa about it but he'd just shrugged and said that cats were highly intelligent anyway.
He shifted his focus away from the coffee machine that was refusing to yield his potion yet in time to see Luna stagger into the side of a table and then bounce back and glare at it for having the gall to be in her way. Duo snickered, it seemed he wasn't the only being in the house who was _that_ tired, "Morning Luna!"
He really wasn't expecting much in the way of a reply, a meow at the most, which is why he dropped the empty mug he'd been waiting to fill when he got one.
"Morning Duo."
Luna froze for a moment then tried to dash from the room.
Duo may have been tired but he was still faster. He caught her within two strides and lifter her up to eye level hands beneath her front legs and keeping her out of striking range.
"You spoke! Do it again!"
"Meow??" He hadn't realized that cats could look sheepish before now.
"Nice try," he gave her a little shake "I'm not buying. Talk!!"
They must have stared at each other for a full five minutes. Duo was grateful that no one came down in that time - they would have thought he was nuts. It was obvious he outstared Luna though, because she finally hung her head and with a sigh began to speak.
"Please! Don't tell anyone else! It's very important that no one knows!"
It had been an interesting conversation to say the least. He'd spoken to Artemis later that afternoon, he liked that cat he was quite a character.
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[[So that is what you meant by the cats answering back.]]
[[Yep! I _told_ you there was something suss about those two but would you believe me nooooo. 'Cats are very intelligent Duo.' Well. I have something to say to you Trowa!]] Duo grinned impishly at the screen and blew a raspberry [[TOLD ya so!!]]
Trowa merely arched an eyebrow; amusement twinkled in his visible eye.
[[Ami is Mercury,]] Heero cut in before the conversation degenerated further, [[I was unsure of the others.]]
Duo grinned [[I _knew_ there had to be another reason you were watching her!]]
If Quatre didn't know better he would have sworn that he saw Heero blush faintly. Then again, maybe he did, Duo looked rather smug over _something_.
Quatre was more than a little curious about how Heero had drawn this conclusion. He'd had no idea that Ami - quiet, sensible Ami - was the Sailor Senshi who loved to turn them into Pilot Popsicles.
"And you know this _how_?"
[[Same laptop.]]
Duo started snickering [[You _would_ notice what sort of computer she was using wouldn't you?]] He chuckled, a teasing light entered his eyes, [[You like getting frozen by her don't you? I always thought you were a sucker for punishment!.]]
Heero deigned not to answer but the glare and faint blush really said it all.
Wufei decided to intervene before Wing Zero started powering up its beam cannon and he found himself short a boyfriend. [[I knew Rei was Mars from my previous visit. I have some suspicions about some of the others; a couple of those were confirmed today.]]
Quatre was more than a little stunned. He prided himself on his observational skills yet he hadn't noticed _any_ of this. "And nobody thought to mention this while we cased them all over the city _why_ exactly?"
Wufei had the decency to look slightly ashamed of himself, [[I was threatened with Boyfriend a la flambé if I mentioned it. or the fact that she's dating Yuuichiro]] You could see the faint smirk adorning his face [[And I didn't just say that.]]
Heero was unperturbed by the cold stare Quatre was giving him [[I wanted to discover the rest of their identities before I reported.]]
Duo snorted [[You would,]] he was, however, unable to contain his curiosity. [[lemme guess. You made it a mission? Any ideas on the others?]] He had a few suspicions himself and he wanted to see if they matched the perfect soldiers.
[[Unconfirmed.]]
Now even Trowa was curious, [[Who do you suspect Heero?]]
[[Hn. Most of the inner Senshi, as they call themselves are confirmed,]] he began to rattle off a list of names. A list of very familiar names. All of them were Usagi's best friends, [[Jupiter: Makoto, unconfirmed. Mars: Rei, confirmed. Mercury: Ami 99% confirmed. Cosmos: Usagi, confirmed. Venus: Minako, confirmed. Outer Senshi; one confirmed, one unconfirmed. Uranus: Haruka, confirmed. Neptune: Michiru, 90% confirmed.]]
How could he have missed it? All Usagi's 'study-buddies' were sailor Senshi! "What about Pluto and Saturn? You didn't list any suspicions for them."
[[No suspicions as of yet.]]
[[Admit it Hee-chan you have no idea!]]
[[Hnn.]]
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Getting into the base had been relatively easy. Most of the personnel had taken one look at the approaching Gundams and fled - showing more common sense than most fanatics. The Preventor retinue that was following at a discrete distance had picked them up. The remaining base personnel had put up a small amount of resistance but, after Duo got inventive with some smoke and his speakers, they quickly surrendered. The Preventor retinue also picked up that group. Une wanted the base destroyed with no loss of life if at all possible.
As they searched for the human hostages they planted the bombs. The only sign they had found so far were the scientific records and even those only suggested on person.
Duo was the one to discover him. He was lying on the floor of one of the cells in the lower prison area, bleeding and all together not looking too good.
"Jeez, they must have liked you as much as they used to like us. They sure did a number on you!" He turned and called back down he hallway to the others before cautiously entering the room.
The blonde looked up from where he was lying, "It's the green blood," he cracked a crooked grin as he levered himself upward, wincing as he did so. "For some reason they found it rather interesting."
Trowa blinked as he entered the cell to catch the last comment. Green blood? "Are you even human?" It didn't sound possible. The guy _looked_ human enough, shortish blonde hair, blue eyes and wearing the remains of what looked like a sort of grey uniform with a red trim but humans didn't have green blood.
The blonde grinned disarmingly. Well. he tried to, he ended up wincing again as he pulled on some of his facial injuries. "Apparently I am again now. It turned red again. They found _that_ really interesting."
He shuddered as he remembered some of the experiments that had been conducted on him after that. A lot of them had involved electricity and sharp pointy objects.
"They kept trying to get it to go green again. On command. I am _not_ a set of those. what are they oh yeah. traffic lights _dammit_!" His face took on a dazed yet thoughtful expression.
Upon closer inspection Heero noted that the blonde's eyes weren't quite focussed and that they had a slightly glazed look to them. He had obviously been drugged and whatever they'd given him was still running through his system.
"Although." the crooked grin was back, this time accompanied with a twinkle of mischief in the glazed eyes, "I could be. On, off, on, off, on, off." He began to bounce his head from side to side in time with his chanting. He stopped and grimaced as the movement aggravated his
extensive injuries, "Owwww. Whoa! Head-spin. interesting. Hang on! It hasn't turned orange yet! Damn. That blows that theory out of the water!"
He sighed and turned his head towards Duo. The boys shoulders were shaking with suppressed laughter, tears were running down his cheeks. He found the blonde absolutely hilarious - you had to admire someone who managed to keep a sense of humour after all he'd been through - and he looked like he'd been through hell. The blonde turned his gaze to Wufei who looked like he was caught between the urge to laugh and the urge to worry about just what this guy was and what they'd given him.
"Do you know anyone with orange blood?"
Duo began to snicker. He hid his face between Wufei's shoulder blades to try and muffle the sound. Wufei threw the other pilots a long-suffering look before sighing and answering the odd question that had been posed to him. "I don't know anyone with green blood - let alone
someone with orange!" Though he had noted that some Youma had greenish blood. Like that giant marshmallow... thing from last week.
"You do now! I think. Anybody got something sharp so I can check?"
They all blinked. He _had_ to be kidding. didn't he? It had been said with such a straight face though, it was hard to be _quite_ sure.
Quatre shook himself out of the collective stupor first. They'd spent enough time just standing there, this guy needed medical attention, and possibly psychological too, and he wasn't going to get it lying here. It was well past time to blow this place- literally. He had some sisters waiting to be chewed out at home.
"We're leaving now."
"You're leaving?" the blonde looked almost sad. "Am I going or staying?"
Duo looked at him over Wufei's shoulder, still snickering slightly. "Do you want to be inside or outside when this place goes '_boom_'?"
The blonde seemed to contemplate the question quite seriously. The answer in the mission parameters said 'outside' and making Une unhappy had proved... unwise many times before, so the boys were really hoping for an 'outside' answer.
"Is it more painful or less painful than being run over by a jumbo jet? That _hurts_!"
Wufei felt Duo plant his face back between his shoulder blades, hard. He could hear the not so well muffled sound of his lover's laughter. Sighing he wondered, not for the first time, why he put up with this. "At a rough guess I think it would be _more_ painful."
Quatre blinked furiously, run over by a jumbo jet!? How! The damn things only have one wheel at the front and two on either side. Getting stomped by a Gundam was more likely, but anyway. Couldn't you at least dodge! Really! Quatre decided that his brain had obviously had enough surprises for one day it was beginning to short circuit. he was starting to think like Minako!
"More." The corners of Heero's lips were twitching slightly.
Duo snorted and pulled his face from the back of Wufei's uniform to cast a wry grin at him. "And you'd know wouldn't you? Destructo boy."
"Outside please! If it's not too much trouble for you, my teleportation is shot to hell!" the blonde seemed very cheery all of a sudden "I don't like pain!"
Trowa made his way over to the injured ex-prisoner and, after checking him over for more serious injuries, picked him up carefully.
"You know," The blonde began conversationally as he was lifted off the ground "If I bleed on you, you'll look like a Christmas tree. Red and green, and red and green, and red and green," his eyes were starting to glaze over again. "Maybe they thought I was Santa Claus, what with
being at the North Pole and everything." He began to snicker, which quite quickly turned into hysterical giggling.
Trowa merely arched an eyebrow at the running commentary as he walked towards the hanger where they'd parked their Gundams. There were some transports there that they'd.. appropriated for transporting the Gundams home in. There was no way a hostage would fit in the cockpit with one of them - those things were cramped enough as it was.
Following along behind Trowa and his multi-coloured burden Wufei looked slightly alarmed. "I think he's a little stressed. I doubt he's had too much caffeine," he commented to Duo. Nope, definitely not too much caffeine, a) he wasn't quite talking a mile a minute (1) and b) the giggling didn't sound quite insane enough - though only just.
Duo arched an eyebrow. "Well, if you'd been stuck in here for however long with only these jerks to talk to would you be stressed?"
"Actually," Quatre joined the conversation "I think I'd be more insane than he seems to be."
Duo waved a hand at the giggling blonde in front of them. Wufei caught it before it hit him in the face and tucked it in to his own, "My point exactly."
The blonde, who had been babbling at Trowa the whole time, Trowa could stand it - after all Quatre was related to Usagi and Minako - raised his voice and the monologue travelled back down the hallway, "And I was trapped in that stupid crystal for three years. or was it four? It was three. Yep three uhhhh four, no three, four? Eenie, meanie, minie, mo." He began to quickly count on his fingers frowning when he didn't get the answer he wanted and couldn't come up with the same answer twice in a row. "If I didn't know better, I'd say someone stuffed up the timeline," he muttered half to himself but loud enough for everyone to hear. "Maybe it was Sailor Moon, she looked a _lot_ like 'Ren. Actually, I think she _was_ 'Ren."
Heero blinked. Sailor Moon? A Senshi they hadn't encountered yet? Interesting. Then something else occurred to him, this guy knew the Sailor Senshi??
"It might have been Pluto," the blonde continued to ramble. "She never did like me very much. Might've had something to do with Zoi n' me putting hair dye in her shampoo. But she looked so good with neon purple hair! Dark green is sooooo boring. it did clash with her eyes though, but I mean red eyes ick. She never _did_ like us much after that though. Loved to thwack us with that staffy thing of hers in practice. She can be such a bully!"
Yep. He knew the Sailor Senshi. Pluto at the very least, all of them had been hit with that staff at one time or another, having a key shaped bruise on your forehead was slightly embarrassing.
"You were stuck in a crystal?" Brushing aside the fact that he knew the Sailor Senshi that sounded strange. Then again since they'd all come to Juuban they'd seen a lot of strange things; Youma, Quatre's sisters - turning into Sailor Senshi of course, Umino - that boy was strange, he _still_ wouldn't leave Heero alone death glares just didn't work on him.
The blonde nodded, "Yeah. It was soooo boring in there. No one to talk to nothing. Rocks aren't very good conversationalists, d'you know they wont' even talk telepathically? There were 6483