Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Secrets ❯ Birth and rebirth ( Chapter 6 )

SECRETS 04: birth and re-birth

 

Sally looked over her report one more time before going back in the

room where they had placed the five ex-Gundam pilots after they'd been found. She had been keeping a vigil over them for five days now and she was beginning to worry.

 

“How are they?” Une stepped quietly beside her and looked over the agents she'd come to respect and care about.

 

Sally shook her head and re-checked her data. “According to my tests there is no reason for them to be unconscious.” Shaking her hair out of her eyes and making a quick mental note to re-braid her hair before going back into the lab. “I've checked and re-checked everything. I even ran DNA tests to check for genetic anomalies.”

 

Une gave her best doctor a startled look at that revelation, since it was a known that the doctors probably did something to change those boys. “Those should be interesting reading when they come back.”

 

Sally nodded and set aside her data pad before leaning over to check Duo's eyes. “Oh!”

 

Sally jumped as violet eyes opened to look up at her. “Duo?”

 

Looking around she was surprised to find that with one waking the others were not far behind. It was odd, but then again they were all oddities in this world.

 

“What happened?” Duo asked as he rubbed his forehead weakly. He felt as if he'd run a race against a mobile suit and lost.

 

“That's what we'd like to know, Mr. Maxwell.” Une stepped forward so that the boy could see her. “You were all found unconscious in the lab. The boxes were sealed and labeled, along with warnings for bio-hazard.”

 

Duo frowned. “O-kay.” Scratching his head, he leaned up in the bed and adjusted so that he could sit up comfortably, watching while Sally checked over his friends.

 

“I want to know what happened?”

 

Duo looked up at his boss. The Lady was gone and the Colonel was shadowed over her. Frowning, Duo blinked his eyes several times but the shadow remained. “Uh, dunno?”

 

“Not good enough, Mr. Maxwell.” Une spoke sternly before she dropped the facade and moved to lay a hand gently on the boy's shoulder. “You scared us.”

 

The image of the Colonel faded and Duo was once again looking into the face of the Lady who had come to him to for help so long ago.

 

“Sorry.” He said lamely as he tried to figure out what had happened.

 

“Well, I don't' know why I'm surprised but you're all back to normal.” Sally shook her head as she dropped Quatre's wrist and patted his shoulder. “I would like to know what happened because my tests told me nothing.”

 

The pilots all looked at one another with questions. None of them had answers because they didn't know what happened. The last they recalled was the shadow moving to attack them and Duo bursting into light to protect them.

 

“I wish we knew, Miss Po.” Quatre answered. “We're as lost as you are.”

 

Sally nodded. “Well, I'm going to go and order you something to eat. You boys stay in bed and don't move.”

 

Une nodded and with a point of her fingers, she reiterated that order. “Don't move or I'll know it.”

 

The boys stared, eyes wide and mouths open, as the two women left them alone. It was unusual for Commander Une to say such things. She was a hard woman but she cared for her agents, just not as a motherly type.

 

“What was that?” Duo asked breaking the silence that followed the two women's exit.

 

Wufei shrugged and got himself comfortable on the bed. “We scared them.”

 

“No shit.”

 

Heero looked around the room trying to decide what to do next. “We have to try to remember what happened to us. What is the last thing remembered?”

 

Quatre sighed. “I remember the shadows coming at us and Duo stopping them.”

 

Wufei nodded. “As do I.”

 

Trowa nodded in agreement, his eyes never leaving the ceiling.

 

Heero nodded. “I don't remember labeling or boxing those parts.”

 

Duo frowned as he listened to them recount what they remembered. As he looked at each of them, he could see a shadowy form over his friends, an echo of who they really were. Lady Une's he may not have understood, but the ones hovering over his friend's countenance he understood well.

 

Looking at Heero he saw the golden glow of a power. It was what Heero was. He was wearing the shadowy armor of an avenging warrior. It was surprising to see it. At the foot of his bed stood the small shadow of his own guardian in the nether world, holding his shield and sword. It was spooky to see a child as a guardian, but when she smiled at him there was a strength of purpose in her eyes that could not be dimmed in death.

 

On Wufei there was a glow as well only this one was green and strong. A dragon was sitting on his shoulder and there was the shadow of his wife near the bed. His countenance was strong as he lay back on the bed and the shadowy Dragon warrior lay a hand over him to sooth his wrinkled brow. She smiled down at him, offering comfort to him even as she gave him strength.

 

With Quatre the ethereal was now visible. His glow was intense and there were wings coming out of his back in a gray shadow of light. The armor was strange looking, but Duo knew that it was of the people his blood line was- the immortals. There was no guardian at his side, his strength came from the others - a power combined at his will.

 

Trowa was an echo of a lion and an eagle. His wings were majestically folded beneath him while the main of the lion wrapped around his head. A greenish glow announced his elfin ancestry and there was a small pixie flitting around the bed chattering at everything it saw. Duo couldn't help but laugh at her antics.

 

“Duo?” Duo looked over at Quatre and blinked a few times to fade the images away.

 

“They don't know what happened.” He shoved the covers off and slowly stood. “The cameras were disabled and they can't see.” Flexing his legs, he made sure of his balance before moving away from his bed.

 

Quatre frowned, a worried expression forming on his face. “Duo?”

 

“There's something going on. Something that happened on that base way before we got there.” Duo paced as he spoke, his mind racing with things he tried to remember. “Maybe Oz had been experimenting and it failed or got away from them. Maybe those guys activated a dormant weapon or virus or something, but whatever it is, it affected us.”

 

Wufei scowled. “Affected us, how?”

 

Duo looked around and could see that all the echoes were fading. The pixie was waving at him as she vanished into a sunbeam. The child giggled as the Dragon warrior ushered her into the light before casting a quick look back at her husband. With her exit, Duo felt the strength he had leave him and he fell to his knees.

 

“Duo!” Heero jumped from his bed to catch him before he could fully hit the floor.

 

“You're forever catching me, Hee-chan.” Duo smiled.

 

“You're forever falling, baka.” Heero countered as he lifted the braided pilot and put him back in his bed.

 

“We are our true selves now.” Duo murmured as sleep tried to take him. “We're gonna be all right now.”

 

The other pilots exchanged glances as Duo fell into a serene sleep.