Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Being Heero Yuy ❯ The Mission ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: Yes. I own them. Please sue me.

 

Story Warnings: There is a possibility the rating for this story may go up in the future. This story is rated for: humor, angst, language and crude humor at times. There also may be homosexuality in this fiction, though as to what extent, I haven't decided yet.

 

A/N: I hope no one kills me for submitting another story without finishing the others.

 

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A muffled explosion sounded.

 

“Shit.” Duo muttered. Looking up, the braided boy saw Heero further ahead beckoning to him. Taking a look down both hallways, Duo sprinted across the intersecting halls and met up with Heero.

 

“Wufei's goin' a bit overboard don't `cha think?” Whispered Duo nervously.

 

“He's doing what he must to give us the time we need to find this new power source of OZ's.” Heero replied with a glare.

 

“Yeah, but it's not like we've seen that much of a resistance.” Duo muttered.

 

Red lights flashed and sirens sounded as the two boys ran down a hallway with multiple doors on either side. Heero stopped and lifted a hand held computer. “This is it.” Heero said as he grabbed the door handle.

 

Duo looked up and down the hall at all the doors. “You sure?”

 

Heero grunted as the door proved to be locked. “Stand back.”

 

Doing as he was told, Duo stepped back and watched as Heero took out an explosive devise and attached it to the door. The Japanese pilot pressed a few buttons and looked back at Duo.

 

“Go!” Heero commanded Duo before pressing the last button.

 

Duo didn't need to be told twice. Turning around, he began running and heard the other pilot just behind him. An explosion sounded behind the two boys and the force of the explosion knocked them to the ground. As the dust settled, Duo opened his eyes to find Heero laying over him. Grinning mischievously, Duo wrapped his arms around the other boy and whispered, “I never knew you cared…”

 

Heero growled as he pulled out of the American's grip and headed back to the door. Snickering, Duo followed the disgruntled pilot through the hole where the door used to be.

 

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Trowa turned his gundam around, scanning the area. The defenses of the base were lighter than he had thought they would be considering they were guarding some new powerful energy source. The construction of the base was still in progress, so there wasn't much to destroy. The number of mobile suits in opposition… few. Too few. Trowa had seen only a handful of soldiers on foot and those seemed to lumber along, as if the effort was more then they could bear.

 

The tall pilot's brow creased. Now that he thought if it… the fight with the mobile suits had been easier than normal as well… Suddenly the screen in Heavyarms's cockpit lit up to show a very concerned Quatre looking at him.

 

“03… there's something wrong here… Something's not right. We need to get out of here. I tried to contact 01 and 02 but…” The blonde boy's face took on a frightened far away look before he continued in a concerned whisper. “We have to find them…”

 

Then Quatre's eyes snapped back to reality. Pressing a button on Sandrock's control panel, the blonde boy looked up and his voice became brisk and business-like.

 

“05. 03. You will retrieve 01 and 02. I will stay here and finish the rest of the mission. 04 out.”

 

With that said, the blonde's image disappeared from the screen.

 

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After ten minutes of twisting hallways and steep stairs, the two boys found themselves in a large underground cavern. The braided boy sniffed and wrinkled his nose. Bringing his hand to his nose Duo asked, “You smell that?”

 

“Hn.”

 

Duo shrugged, looked wearily around and moved his hand higher to wipe his forehead. The cool, damp air felt good after the long exertion to get to the cave. Looking over to Heero, Duo lifted an eyebrow as if to say, “Well?”, and rolled his eyes when Heero gave him a hard stare and motioned with his gun for the braided boy to follow.

 

Heero set a slow, cautious pace and Duo figured they must be close to the new power source OZ had found. At least I get a good view, Duo thought as he eyed the other boy appreciatively before putting his mind back to the task of keeping an eye out for OZ soldiers.

 

Electric lights lined the cavern walls, though only less than half were working. The lighting was sufficient, but it wasn't good enough for Duo to miss tripping over one of the large cables that were strewn over the dirty floor. Holding back a surprised yell, Duo gasped and closed his eyes, knowing he was going to have a close encounter with the ground. Unexpected hands closed around his waist, stopping his fall. Opening his eyes, Duo found his nose a half inch away from hitting the rocky ground.

 

Knowing the result wouldn't be good, but not able to stop the taunting comment, Duo said, “Aww. Heero you really do care.”

 

The result was immediate and painful as the Japanese boy removed his hands from Duo's person and the braided boy connected sharply with the cavern floor. Duo groaned and lifted himself off the ground in time to see Heero walking off without him. Duo scrambled to his feet and ran to catch up to the dark haired pilot.

 

“You need to work on your sense of humor.” The pilot of Deathscythe muttered as he gently touched his nose. Duo knew the polite thing to do would be to thank the other boy for saving him from a broken nose, but the long haired boy's pride wouldn't allow him to do so, especially after he had just been dropped anyway. Duo saw no need to remind himself that the only reason he had been dropped was because he couldn't keep his mouth closed.

 

After a couple more minutes of walking, the two gundam pilots found that the cables were leading to a large machine. The machine was built on the edge of an underground lake. When Heero stopped walking suddenly, Duo almost ran into the other boy.

 

“What? Why'd you stop?”

 

Heero pointed toward the machine. Duo squinted his eyes, but wasn't sure what his comrade was pointing at. The braided boy shook his head and opened his mouth to speak when he saw it. Duo looked at Heero who looked grimly back.

 

It was an OZ soldier.

 

A dead OZ soldier.

 

As the two boys approached the body they saw more soldiers scattered about on the ground and even on the machine. When they reached the first soldier Heero knelt down and examined the corpse.

 

“No signs of a fight… No wounds whatsoever… Looks like he's only been dead for a couple days…”

 

Duo put a hand over his nose. “Yeah well, that's long enough to ripen. Must be what we smelled earlier. Who cares if they're dead or why they're dead. They stink. I wanna get out of here before I sick up.”

 

Heero looked up and glared at the other pilot. “It might be important.”

 

“I thought we were here to destroy the power source, or steal it if we can. What does this have to do with our mission?”

 

The Japanese boy turned his attention on the lake. “I believe that might be the power source.”

 

“A lake?”

 

“Why else would they have all that equipment surrounding it? It looks as if this machine is meant to extract whatever power there is from that lake.”

 

“Well it's not working now.” Duo commented as he observed the machine.

 

Duo watched as Heero stood and made his way over to the machine then looked around. The cavern walls were filled with crudely drawn pictures. Pictures of people in, what seemed to be, peace and war. Fighting and Dying. Men, women and children fighting and dying. There were many drawings of lakes as well. Or maybe, Duo reasoned, it was the same lake just different scenes. As the American was about to take a closer look at the pictures, Heero called, “Duo! We'll look at that later. This first.”

 

The braided boy turned away from the wall. “Yeah, yeah.” He muttered, making his way toward the lake. Heero had finished with the machine and was kneeling in the middle of a planking that crossed over the length of the lake. The clunk, clunk of Duo's footsteps on the metal plank echoed loudly in the almost silent cavern.

 

Heero sat up from where he was bending over to get a sample of the water and looked intently at his catch. Duo folded his arms as he looked from the other pilot to the lake.

 

“You think OZ would put railing on this thing or something…” Duo muttered looking at the wet plank. “It's like, a lawsuit just waiting to happen.”

 

Heero snapped a lid on the container and turned to put it in his pack.

 

Leaning over to peer into the water, Duo whistled softly. “Wow! That water's pretty clear. Ya know, I thought OZ must have dropped some sink lights into the lake to make it light up like that, but it's the lake. That's awesome. I wonder what's in there that makes it do that. But damn, if that isn't the clearest water I've ever seen. You can see right down to the bottom.”

 

A sound echoed the way the two boys had come from and Duo's head snapped up. Drawing his gun, Duo turned, only to slip on the planking and smack his head painfully on the metal before tumbling into the lake. Try as he might, the braided boy couldn't seem to get his limbs to move and he felt himself sinking. Everything seemed to blur and spin in his fading vision as Duo looked up toward the surface and saw Heero jump into the lake. The world seemed to grow darker as he felt his body begin to tingle and Duo realized his brain wasn't too interested in making sure he was breathing.

 

Duo felt arms wrap around his chest and knew it was Heero.

 

Don't waste your time Heero. I'm dying. Just leave me. You know… I never got to figure you out. I wish I could have…I think I'd give anything for that… but now it's too late… Duo thought, not realizing in his impaired state that Heero couldn't hear his thoughts.

 

Duo thought he heard Trowa and Wufei's voices far away, but wasn't sure. Duo felt sand beneath him and a weight press down on him as Heero passed out only seconds before Duo.

 

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In the darkness Duo heard voices.

 

“It's a good thing Yuy got them close enough to the shore so that we could get them without going for a dive.”

 

“Yes, but are they going to be alright? I'm telling you something's not right.”

 

“Quatre, they're fine. Except for Duo's head injury, they are both in excellent condition.”

 

“But Dr. Po…”

 

“Sally. Please Wufei.”

 

“Whatever. If Yuy is in excellent condition why did he pass out?”

 

“Well to tell you the truth… I don't know. It does seem sort of strange doesn't it? There really is no reason for Heero to have passed out at all. He's an excellent swimmer and like I said before, he's in good condition.”

 

“Let's just let them rest for now. When they wake we should talk about what we're going to do about that base.”

 

“You didn't destroy it?”

 

“No.”

 

“Why?”

 

But Duo never heard the answer because the darkness swallowed him again and all was quiet.

 

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Duo rolled over on the bed and groaned. His body felt like lead and all he wanted to do was sleep. Unfortunately, his bladder was demanding attention. Duo rolled over to get out of bed and hit the wall. Cracking one eye open Duo stared at the wall trying to figure out, in his semi-conscious state, when the wall changed sides.

 

Deciding to figure it out later, Duo turned over and rolled off the bed. Letting his eyes droop shut Duo walked toward the bathroom the two boys shared. He didn't need to see to find his way. Heero kept the place so clean that… Duo bumped into the dresser that occupied the space between his and Heero's bed and opened his heavy eyelids slightly.

 

Well… I guess if the wall can move with out warning, so can everything else. Duo thought sleepily.

 

Turning around, the braided boy headed the other way until he met the bathroom door. Duo groped around for the door knob until he felt the cold metal thing under his fingers. Opening the door, Duo lumbered into the bathroom and leaned tiredly against the door to shut it. Duo lurched forward and felt around near the mirror for the light switch. Finding the evasive switch, he flicked on the light.

 

Duo cracked his eyelids open again to see if he looked as bad as he felt. When the image in the mirror came into focus, Duo gasped sharply as his eyes flew open. The person in the mirror was not the image of the happy go lucky pilot of Deathscythe.

 

It was Heero Yuy.

 

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A HUGE thanks to my editor / beta reader MasamuneRebornand thanks to Miss Shepherdess for her insight.