Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Invisible Man ❯ The Invisible Man 3 ( Chapter 3 )

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The invisible man 3

Heero turned his head to the right and stared at the figure in front of him. It was really him! He couldn't believe it.

"Duo…" he didn't trust his own words, he even didn't trust his eyes although he could see the slender form in front of him. And the figure smiled at him, it was the same smile he had seen years ago.

"Long time no see, hu?" Duo spoke up. As Heero didn't answer, but kept staring, Duo let out a low chuckle. "Hey, have you lost your ability to speak?" And the braided boy chuckled even more as Heero blinked a few times.

"It's.. " Heero stopped for a moment, thinking. "There are so many questions running around my head, that I don't know what to ask and how to ask." The short haired boy admitted, bowing his head.

"Well, just blurt `em out. I have lotsa time." Duo grinned. The last sentence made Heero look up. Time, right, lots of time had passed, but Duo didn't seem much older than before. Now he had his first question.

"Duo, why aren't you looking older? I mean, after all, it' been 10 years." As soon as the question was out, all cheerful mimicks disappeared from Duo's face.

"Well, it has something to do with the further experiments of Dr.G." He paused and looked at Heero, hoping that it would satisfy the boy. But it seemed that this explanation had aroused Heero's curiosity.

"What kind of experiments, Duo? I mean, I am in the 3rd year of my scientitic studies. Just like I promised. I f you tell me a bit, then maybe I can help you." Heero explained, his eyes suddenly glistening with exitement.

Sighing, Duo nodded and started to tell Heero what had happened after he was captured, 10 years ago.

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The helicopter landed in front of the lab and guards quickly surrounded it, waiting for their boss to emerge. Indeed, Dr.G was the first one to get out, followed by teo other men and then finally Duo, still held by the guard with the special gloves.

"Retreat." Dr.G ordered and the men quickly disappeared inside the building. The scientist then turned around to face Duo.

"Do you have any idea what a few month of looking for you cost me?" The man started speaking, anger filling his voice.

"Tell me why you can see me, and why this idiot there can hold me. Is it possible that your brilliant scientistic project failed?" Duo grinned before a punch was delivered to his stomache. He fell onto his knees, clutching his stomache in pain. As he looked up, he could see Dr.G holding up his hand; covered with a glove.

"Nnn, bastard." Duo whimpered.

"No, you're the only bastard around here. And you will be so much more, soon. Since you were a bad project 0-2, I will restart my experiments on you today." The scientist grinned before lookingat the man next to the kneeling boy. "Guard, bring him into 0-5's cell."

"But," the man interfered, "isn't that too dangerous? 0-5 is still being tested. What if he attacks 0-2?" The guard argued. G looked at him in a strange way before answering angrily.

"Who do you think you're talking to? I know what I am ordering! 0-5 is no danger for the boy. I'm their `father' after all. I know them better than they know themselves!" That tone made the man wince, and nodding silently, he took Duo by the arm and dragged him inside the building.

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"What a bastard" Heero suddenly stopped Duo. "How long did you have to stay at that place before you came to me?" Duo was silent, lost in memories. He sighed before speaking up again.

" Too long… please, let me continue. It's hard enough to tell anyway." Heero quickly nodded, seeing the pain in Duo's eyes.

"Thank you.."

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"Asshole! Let me out!!" Duo screamed while trying to break through the electric barrier that held him inside the cell. "You will pay for this!" He ran against the barrier once more before being hurled backwards hard.

"Hnn… bastard…." He winced in pain before trying to stand up. A sudden voice made him stop his actions.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" It was a very familiar voice.

"Wufei?" Duo asked into the dark corner of the cell. Nothing moved there but the tone of the voice changed.

"Duo! You're here?" it asked happily. "Oh, I missed you so much!" Then it stopped, a sniffling sound was heard. "You don't smell. I can't smell you, Duo. But I can fell your presence." It explained. Duo's answer was a deep sigh.

"How many things have they done to you while I wasn't here? Only three month, but I guess long enough to torture your beaten body. Were you in pain?" He asked. The voice sighed as well before a scratching sound was heard, like… claws walking over the stoney floor. Duo stared at the dark corner as the shilouettes of the other project became slowly visible.

"God, Wufei… is that really you?" Duo gasped as he looked at the creature which was a boy some month ago. One of its foot and hand more like talons than a foot or hand, the other foot and hand were completely bandaged, arms still covered with many bandages as well, the legs, which were also partly bandaged, hairy and looked just like that of a wolf. Chest was hidden behind metallic armor. Well, Duo hoped it was just armor. And the face…the head was hidden beneath a bandage and the nose was covered with plasters as well as some other parts of the face. Exept for one eye, which was black, everything else had changed, even the second eye. It was covered with a bandage, signalising that it was either damaged or being manipulated like other body parts. All in all the poor boy looked more like a mummy than anything else.

"God, what have they done to you?" Duo whispered, depressed. Here he thought that his momentary state was bad, but the poor boy in front of him really had it worse.

"Well, they're not even finished. They are just trying how animalistic body parts and senses, mixed up with certain technology, work on the human body. This" he pointed at his nose, "will probably be the hardest part. They're trying to add the smelling senses of a dog. To do that, they'll have to kill my sense of smell completely. In case it goes wrong….." Wufei stopped, knowing that the other boy understood what he meant.

"How could they…" The briaded boy cursed silently. But Wufei heard it already.

"Duo, your momentary state isn't that much better. As I heard from other projects, you aren't visible to anyone, and as I see, it's true. You can't touch anybody because that person would die. If it's true, my friend, then you're situation is as bad as mine." Duo tried to protest, but as he thought about it, Wufei was right at last. He couldn't touch anyone, he wasn't able to touch….

"Heero can see me." Duo suddenly said aloud and Wufei blinked.

"Who is Heero?" A sudden noise made them both look up. "It's G." Wufei whispered, recognizing the man by his footsteps. The boy quickly hid in the corner again.

"Ah, you were able to see how wonderful everything has worked with project 0-5. How fine." Dr.G grinned. Duo looked at the man distrusting as he stood in front of their cell.

"Why can you see me? And why are you torturing Wufei so much?!" The braided boy couldn't hold back his anger anymore. "Isn't it enough that you turn my life into a living hell?! Why are you doing this anyway??" Dr.G's content expression changed as Duo shouted at him.

"Talk to me in this tone and I won't tell you anything." He grunted before pressing a button on the wall beside the cell. The barrier suddenly intensified and with a loud scream, Duo and Wufei fell onto the floor, knocked out.

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"How mean… " Heero interfered.

"Yeah… mean indeed."

"And why DID he do those experiments?" Heero asked impatient.

"I'll tell you in just a minute."

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"Uhh..where …?" Duo groaned as he lowly woke up, having a terrible headache. As his senses slwoly came back to him, he noticed that he was bound onto a table, somewhere in a dark room. The thing around his stomache was leather-like, but the fastenings around his wrists and ankles were made of steel,making it impossible for him to break out.

"Seems that you have learned from your mistakes, G." Duo spoke up, knowing that the doctor couldn't be too far away. And as the light was lit up, Duo could see that the man was standing right beside his table.

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"Wait a second, what do you mean `learned from your mistakes'?" Heero interfered again, being confused by that sentence. Duo sighed for he was stopped again, but explained anyway.

"It was possible for me to escape because my fastenings were all made of leather. They had underestimated me. If there had been steel fastenings right from the start, we probably wouldn't have met."

"Oh."

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"Oh, Duo, you were such a good boy years ago. Why have you become so bad lately? You wouldn't be in any trouble if you wouldn't have interfered the last experiment by running away." Duo blinked and stared at the man in disbelief.

"Yes, Duo. It's your fault that you are like you are now. If I could have finished work on you before, then your deadly gift wouldn't have been so pure." The man explained. And Duo's anger rose inside him as he listened to the scientist.

"And you say it's my fault?? I wouldn't have this fucking ability if you hadn't fooled around with me!!" As soon as that first wave of anger dissolved, Duo remebered he wanted to ask something. "Hey, G, tell me something. Why are you doing this?"

"Doing what?" The scientist asked annoyed.

"Doing weird experiments with poor street kids. Letting other humans suffer so much. What for? What is your plan behind that shit?" Duo remained calm, it was hard, but he was able to control his rage. Dr.G seemed to feel Duo's anger for he smirked evilly before answering the boy's question.

"Well, Duo, why do you think am I testing how much you can change the human body? As long as human existed, they always wanted to be different. What for?" The man paused, looking at Duo. As the boy made no sound and stared back, G decided to continue.

"War, Duo. It's the only reason for humans to exist. War and, as soon as it was created, money. I taught you some things back then, boy. Forgot everything?" The man teased. Duo was silent for a few moments, thinking about the things he had just heard. And many questions got in his way.

"And why do you need me for war?" He didn't understand what invisibility could be useful for.

"Silly Duo." G laughed ." Just imagine invisible soldiers, able to kill someone without anybody knowing it.An army of invisible killers! You can't even imagine how easy war could be won with that technology!"

"You're sick!!" Duo interfered. "You want to make a mindless troup of heart broken idiots!! They'd have to be perfect and emotionless to live without human contact!!" The rage inside the braided boy rose again. And G's evil smirk didn't help much to calm down again.

"That's what I'm working on right now." As G's smirk grew even wider, Duo suddenly became frightened.

"You… aren't…. gonna….." he stammered. And the scientist laughed out loud, an evil, deep laugh.

"No, silly boy. I won't use it on you, not yet. First, we have to do some other changes to you or you won't survive the tests with the emotion-killer we have thought of." The man's evil grin widened as he got out a syringe with strange, purple liquid. Duo shivered with fear as he stared at the long needle. G laughed again as he saw Duo shiver. "Oh, still haven't come over your fear of syringes, ne?"

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Duo stopped there, not wanting to tell Heero about his fearful struggle against the injection and those wich followed.

"And? What happened after that?" Heero was so curious to hear more about it.

"Well, he forced that stuff into my body. And the liquid he used after it." Duo sighed, remembering the painful weeks as the places where the syringe worked through his skin hurt like hell.

"And what did it do?" The short-haired boy looked like a kid, not wanting its good night story to end.

"Well, the purple stuff stopped the process of aging, and the other one increased my invisibility." Duo bowed his head and winced as he thought about the pain again. Heero watched Duo become silent again and felt sad that he wasn't able to stop the pain Duo had to go through. Trying to distract the boy, he asked another question.

"How did you escape again? I mean, if they have learned from their mistakes, then it had to be harder for you to run away." To Heero's disappointment, Duo kept his head bowed as he answered him.

"I found another weakness in their defense." The longhaired boy suddenly yawned and looked up at Heero. "Say, have you got any food at home? I'm so hungry." The short haired boy had to surpress a little smile as he nodded.

"Sure, follow me." He guided Duo downstairs. "But Duo." He stopped for a moment and turned around to face the braided boy.

"Hm?"

"….you finish the story after eating, okay?" Heero looked at the other boy with hopeful eyes. And to his delight, Duo nodded, even smiling.

"Okay, Heero. After eating."

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