Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The True Victor ❯ Chapter 17

AN: I think I watch too much of Alias. (That's a cool show! Darn my mom...) Anyhoo, here's the next chapter! R&R!

Oh yes, I know that the end of this chapter is kinda...weird, but just deal with it for now, I guess.

Chapter Seventeen

"You were what?!?" Heero exclaimed in anger.

"Hell, I didn't even know that this thing was on me, honest!" Kaitou replied as he crushed the tracker in his hands.

Heero banged his fists on the dead controls. "Kuso..."

The last thing that he wanted was to let the Red Hawks force the Preventers to get involved. He knew perfectly well that they could easily overtake the Preventers, and nobody could stop them if they tried. The Red Hawks had "perfect" soldiers on their side, after all.

However, Heero Yuy also knew that panicking wasn't going to make their situation any better.

"Calm down, Kaitou," he said to his brother. "Once we tell the others what's going on, we'll figure something out."

"Yeah, I guess..." Kaitou murmured. Then he added quietly, "if we can figure out something fast enough."

<Red Hawks HQ>

"Gotcha," a young woman said as she pressed a button on her computer.

Roy walked up behind her, looking at the screen. "Where are they?"

"Well, before the signal died out, they were in the XC500 area," the woman replied, her green eyes looking up at him. "There's no doubt that the Preventers base is nearby."

Roy smiled and began to leave. "Good. Tell the others. We're going to go in."

"Demo, isn't that against the General's orders?"

Roy paused in between the doorway and looked back at her. A small portion of his rebellious memory seemed to have returned. "Screw his orders. We're going to do this our way."

<Preventers' Hangar Base>

Unaware fo the dangers that would lie ahead of them, Relena and the others stepped out of the care and quietly waited for the mobile suit-turned-fighter plane silently land. Their eyes glanced at the black figure in a mixture of fear and awe; the plane seemed more like a black eagle than a plane, silently falling asleep.

Relena unconsciously put her hand to her chest, her heart beating louder and faster at every second that passed by. He hadn't been gone long, but she was still nervous all the same.

The silence was killing her as the sun crept further and further behind the mountains. Relena hated the dark, especially when she was around people she barely knew. Gally was an exception, of course, because she was the one who had adopted her. She only knew Wufei through name and during the very small period she had spent on the Peace Million during the war in AC195. Heero's family were more than trustworthy, but she only just found out that he HAD a family a few days ago. All these people, no matter how much she knew them nor how young they may be, were willing to protect her. This she knew. However, doubt still remained in her mind. To what extent would they protect her? To what extent could she allow them to risk their lives for a person they barely even knew?

"I wonder what's taking him so long," Wufei pondered aloud, snapping Relena out of her thoughts. "It shouldn't take that long to just get out of a plane."

"But didn't Zechs-san say that Heero was piloting a mobile suit?" Andy asked to nobody in particular.

"Depending on what kind of mobile suit it is, it could've transformed," Kaede replied knowingly. "Who knows. It's been a while since anybody's seen one."

"Hey...it's opening up," Gally announced, pointing at the plane.

No sound had uttered from the "plane" itself, but it was clearly seen that two figures stepped out of the plane. Relena held her breath, squinting her eyes as the final rays of the sun glared through them. She could make out that one of the figures was Heero, his usual stoic expression plastered on his face. The other person behind him was unrecogizable. He was noticeably taller than Heero by five inches or more with jet black hair. The Prussian blue eyes he held were strikingly familiar to Relena, and she heard Kaede utter a gasp.

"It's you..." she said.

The stranger scratched the back of his head, sheepishly smiling at her. "Oi..."

Relena finally realized, as she took a closer look, that the man's Prussian blue eyes were similar to Heero's. In fact, when they stood next to each others, the young man looked lik an exact replica of him, just a big younger with minor differences here and there. The stranger glanced desperately at Heero who seemed to be enjoying his discomfort. Relena held back a smile. Enjoying something normal....that's a bit new.

The amusement didn't last very long, though. Kaede approached the two men and gave both hard punches in the face.

"Ow! What'd you do that for?" the young man complained, rubbing his right cheekbone.

"You can say that again," Heero muttered, doing the same on his left cheek.

"That's for hanging up on me earlier," Kaede explained to Heero and then turned to the other man who instinctively stepped back at her threatening approaches.

"And you...," one step closer, two steps back, "where have you been, huh?!? Getting on my case three years ago."

"I...uh...well..." the young man stammered for explaination.

"Oh, so you DID contact her," Heero said, glaring at him.

"Oh, okay...I did...."

"Oi, Yuy," Wufei cut in, a questioning look on his face and pointing at the young man.

Heero jabbed his thumb at the man in his usual demeanor. "Minna-san, this is Kaitou Yuy, our...younger brother."

"Sou..." Relena murmured in a soft voice, but she was cut off by Andy.

"Heero, can you explain what THAT is?" Andy asked, waving his hand at the plane.

As if it knew that Andy was talking to it, the controls of the landing base suddenly operated itself to descend to the actual base itself.

"I don't think we've got time to explain," Kaitou murmured in a low voice.

"I'll explain later, but we need to get to the main base and notify Zechs and Noin what's going on," Heero said as he brushed past Relena in the underground landing pad.

"But why?" Relena asked as the others began to follow.

Heero turned back, not one flicker of emotion was in his eyes except for seriousness. "We're goign to have company."

<Red Hawks' HQ>

Roy Garret and his comrades waited in the hangar to find the perfect time to sneak away from Reinhardt. Their eyes were keenly focused on the area and the cameras surrounding it.

"Now tell me again, Roy," Vicks said behind him. "Why are we going against the General's orders to take in the Yuy family?"

'No need to tell you since you've been brainwashed by them.'

"Does the name Andrew Lowe strike a cord besides him being a Preventer?" Roy replied with a question of his own.

Vicks pondered for a moment. "It does sound familiar..."

"It sounds familiar to all four of us," a recovered Yukki said quietly.

"And we ant to know who he really is," another woman added. "Besides, the General's going to invade the base anyway because of Saiyuki."

"We just want to get there before he does," Roy finished as he still looked at the area. He turned towards his friends. "Yosh, move out."

Pushing all other doubting thoughts aside, the four AES soldiers began their search in finding their true memories....