Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Finding Truth Behind Time Lost ❯ In The Darkness ( Chapter 9 )

Chapter 9: In The Darkness

 

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The mission was going on with ease as Duo hacked into Oz's computer mainframe and began to download some incrypted files that he could decode later. Everything went according to plan the next day and the one after that, until Duo made a slight slip up. One of the programs he used to hack into the computer had been traced and lead right back to the location of his gundam where he sent the other files to store for later.

 

"Shit, this can't be right. This layout plan is for an attack on Deathscythe's location.... fuck!" Duo hurriedly began to shut down his computer and encrypt the files he had just downloaded. There wasn't any way he could get back to Deathscythe in time unless he wanted to risk getting captured, and that wasn't an option. However, he had to hurry and cover his hacking trail or else they would use Deathscythe to locate his whereabouts in the base.

 

Duo started to shimmey out of the conduit he was sitting in and made his way into one of the storage sheds used to keep some of Oz's supplies. Dropping down to the floor seven feet below him, he was off at a run before he could recover his breath. He had to get out of there and fast.

 

There were a few empty storage hangers on the base that he could hide in until everything calmed down again. The good thing was Deathscythe couldn't be opened from the outside so it was safe for now. Reaching the outside was tougher than Duo realized. Personel were coming from every direction and he was almost spotted twice already. If he wasn't the master of stealth then he would be in big trouble.

 

Finally, dodging a few more soliders, he reached the hangers and just began to think he was safe, when a large hand came out from the darkness and grabbed him.

 

"Hey! What do you think you're doing? Let me go!" Duo screamed.

 

"Ah it's the pilot of the gundam is it?" The man's raspy voice questioned.

 

"What? I don't know what you're talking about!" Duo frantically tried to get free, but to no avail. The man's grip kept getting tighter and tighter and Duo thought he was losing circulation to that arm quickly if the man didn't stop.

 

"I know you. You were on some of the still shots that were taken at that L3 base where the slant eyes was captured. You broke him out, so you can pay for his crimes as well as your own." The man began to drag Duo off to the compound, Duo cursing and fighting him the whole way. He jerked and pulled, twisted this way and that, but still the man held him until they entered a room Duo hadn't seen on the outlined blueprints. "Here's the intruder commander."

 

The big man shoved Duo so fast that the braided pilot couldn't react fast enough and had his arms twisted behind his back and was placed in a set of manacles before he could even blink. "Thought you could escape us you little runt? Well, I have plans for you now that I have you. Search him." One guard held onto him as the other patted him down. The one who searched him removed his gun from his waist band and the knife from his boot. Pleased that any weapons were now removed, the commander gave the next set of orders. "Take him to the medical lab and make him talk, he can be our new test subject." The commander smirked evilly as Duo felt two harsh hands start to drag him out of the room and down a corrador.

 

"What are you going to do to me? I haven't done anything I tell you!" Duo shouted at the top of his lungs and was rewarded with a punch to the stomach. It hurt so much that he had to gasp a few moments to get some air back into his lungs once more.

 

"Shut up you worthless piece of crap! You think we don't know what you are! You'll pay for killing our comrades!" The one guard shouted at Duo and backhanded him across the face. "You're going to get what you deserve and you'll confess your crimes to us." By now, Duo was hurting, but it wasn't that bad. Sure he was getting misstreated but it couldn't get any worse.

 

They arrived at a brightly lit room were a grouchy looking woman in a white lab coat was waiting with a suringe in one hand. Duo could see she was looking at him as if he were an animal or something. Her eyes were cold and filled with hatred, but her face looked tired and worn down by too many hours of work as well. Duo knew that look. Heero had that look on his face before they were together, when he had fought one too many battles but was still going on strong. Maybe this woman was as determined as Heero to get her own duties done. How sad that she wasn't on his side right now.

 

"Is this him?" Her voice chipped and to the point asked the guards.

 

"Yes, it seems to be pilot 02. The commander wants him interrogated and you know what that means."

 

"He wants us to use the truth serem? But it's not fully tested yet."

 

"The commander doesn't care. He likes the list of side effects you sent to him as well as the drug's use. Inject this piece of slime with it so he talks. You have your orders so do it!"

 

"I have my orders and I will obey them as the commanders wishes." She stepped forward and started to roll up one of Duo's sleeves so she could inject the serem directly into his veins. Taking a rubber tie out of her shirt pocket she tied it around Duo's bicep and felt for the vein, finding a good one she slowly injected the serem into him. Duo couldn't move with the guards holding him, but still didn't like the conversation the nurse and the guard exchanged.

 

"It'll take fifteen minutes before it kicks in completely, but I warn you. You may get the truth out of him, but it's not without conscequences. The drug will induce pain unimaginable throughout his entire body, he may become mad and hysterical from it." The nurse said as she untied the rubber from Duo's arm.

 

"Well then I guess we can add to the fun once it kicks in." The guard sneered. Duo definitely didn't like the sound of that and before he knew what was going on the guards were hauling him off again. They brought him to an elevator and one guard hit the down arrow. Duo began to feel a little lightheaded and his eyes wouldn't focus correctly. He watched the numbers on the screen go double then triple then back to normal before coming into focus and then blurring once again.

 

The elevator binged and the guards dragged him down another hallway until they reached a cell and opened the door, before tossing him right in. The hard, cold surface greeted his back as he landed and the door began to close, leaving Duo in the dimly lit room. He could make out a cot that was attached to the wall and a toilet to go in. Laying down once again, Duo slowly stretched his arms down behind his butt and pulling his legs closer to his chest he began to get his cuffed hands from behind his back to infront of him instead.

 

"Good thing I'm flexible." Duo mused in the success of now having his hands in front of him. He thought about picking the cuffs open and was about to get the lock picks out of his hair when a sharp pain ripped through his abodomen, causing him to curl up in a ball. "What the fuck!" Another throb went up his spine and Duo could no longer see straight.

 

The pain kept ripping into him again and again until Duo was whimpering and gasping in pain. Through all the pain Duo couldn't hear the door open again. He didn't hear the footsteps approach him, but when the someone touched him he cried out. "Heero. I hope you come for me soon Heero. I think I've just found Hell." Duo whispered to the darkness as another icy fist clutched his stomach as a wave of pain crashed over him, causing him to pass out.

 

 

"We can't interrogate him like this." One guard said to the other.

 

 

"Then just take him to be observed until he comes around again, that way we can ask him questions before he passes out from the pain again."

 

 

"Understood." The first officer gathered Duo up in his arms and took him to the observation room. He took off the manacles and strapped Duo to the table instead by raising both arms over his head and tying his feet at opposite corners as well. It took a while but Duo came around again, still in agony.

 

 

"Tell us who you are." The second officer asked.

 

 

"Go to hell." The officer slapped him and Duo couldn't help but wince. The pain was getting worse and these jerks were adding to it.

 

 

"Who are you?" Duo was going to curse at them again, but something made him stop and he told them.

 

 

"I'm the God of Death." The pain eased a bit and Duo felt a little bit more comfortable. 'They injected me with a truth serem if I keep telling them some kind of truth the pain goes away. I hope I can say enough without giving myself away.'

 

 

"Did you ever pilot the gundam we now have in our possession?"

 

 

"Uh-huh. I stole it." Duo told them and the pain died down a bit more.

 

 

"Why would you steal it?" The first guard asked.

 

 

"Because someone told me to, that's why." Duo spat.

 

 

"Do you always do what is ordered of you?"

 

 

"No. I do what I want." Duo began to get tired and even with the pain still throbbing through his body, he was just so tired. His eyes felt heavy and his head lolled to one side before his eyes began to close.

 

 

"Hey. You're not allowed to fall asleep." The guard spat and smacked Duo to enforce his words, but it was no use, he was out like a light. "Well, we know enough and the commander doesn't care what we do with him after he told us something. Let's get rid of him."

 

 

"I wouldn't suggest doing that. He's beyond the pain, gentlemen." A voice called to them, causing the guards to turn around startled.

 

 

"You! How'd you get out of that cell?" The first guard asked horrified.

 

 

"I'm a woman of many talents, but I don't see the point in killing such a pretty boy. However, for what you have done to him you must pay dearly." I bright light filled the room and the guards were blinded by it. When the light vanished all they could hear was a voice still lingering in the air. "For those who have caused this boy pain, now you shall feel what he has felt. He is now mine, but you will think he will remain here. Seeing things that are not real, until my spell is over." The voice vanished without a trace and the guards came back to their senses.

 

 

"We better put him back in the cell. Let him rot there for all we care." The guards undid the straps and began to carry out the limp body not realizing that they carried nothing at all. They threw in the body and shut the door, only to become over whelmed by pain that they had never felt and passed out onto to the floor only to be found later on by another set of guards who deemed them dead. The cause was to remain unknown.

 

 

Anyone who looked in the cell would see a figure spralled against the floor, too bad there eyes deceived them.

 

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Back at the safe house...

 

Heero and Wufie were watching TV for any sign of Duo. They had kept the TV on all day on the news channel and listened to it no matter what they were doing. Currently, the two were playing cards when a special report came on causing both of them to look up.

 

'In today's special report and gundam has been captured. It was found hidden not far from this Oz training facility seemingly abandoned by it's pilot. The commander of the base has told our reporters that the pilot has been captured and is being dealt with. Some of the people that live around here are demanding a public exicution and want to see what this pilot really looks like. I will update all of you further when more information is provided, back to you Steve.'

 

"Duo has been captured, now we know for certain." Heero said under his breath and looked back up at Wufei with blazing eyes. "I'm getting him out of there!" Wufei nodded. He knew better than to tell Heero otherwise, so instead he offered something better.

 

"I'll come too and help you." Wufei stated.

 

"What about your injuries?" Heero asked as he stomped upstairs to his room to get his things.

 

"I'm fine now. My back just aches at times, but the burns and scratches are all healed. Besides Heero, Duo went on this mission alone without back up and now look where it's has gotten him." Heero couldn't argue with Wufei's logic there and conceded to letting the Chinese pilot help him.

 

"We're leaving in a few hours so pack up your things and get ready."

 

"Not a problem." Wufei replied and went to get ready.

 

They were supplied and ready for action and soon were ready to leave. Heero double checked the blueprints again to make sure he hadn't over looked anything when an e-mail appeared on the screen. Seeing that it was from Quatre, he accepted it and read it through. It seemed that everyone was afraid for Duo. Quatre wrote that both he and Trowa had gotten a mission regarding Duo. However, they were not allowed to use their gndams in order to free him.

 

Heero read on further and found out that Trowa was already in the base and working undercover trying to figure out where Duo was located, but so far didn't have any luck. Quatre was on his way in and just wanted to let Heero and Wufei know where they were. Heero shoke his head, he couldn't believe how fast Quatre and Trowa found out about Duo and acted because of it. It was ... touching how tight their friendship was, even though it could get them all in even more trouble.

 

Closing the e-mail and shuting down his laptop, Heero went to tell Wufei the good news and wanted to leave as well. The gundams couldn't be used since Oz already had Duo's, so they would have to pull their own creative stunts to get him out of there. Hopefully lady luck would be on their side.

 

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TBC....

 

Hope you liked the update and there is more to come. The supernatural aspect has been added and you'll find out more about who this secret woman is eventually....

 

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