Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Virtual Reality ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter Two

At approximately ten Heero found the group standing outside the testing room discussing the day's events.

He had given the offer of testing the Dreamer a good thinking and decided that there was no harm in trying it out. He had spent the last few hours creating and installing a function to recreate human emotions as he wanted to know what the person in his dream was feeling. Heero wanted to know what was making that person cry out for help.

"Hey Heero's here." Dorothy said and waved him over. "Wufei wants you seated in that chair over there."

Heero looked over to where she was pointing when he suddenly felt somebody pushing him in that direction.

"C'mon we don't have all day. Time is money!" said a voice that belonged to his boss. The Japanese soon found himself wearing a helmet with several wires attached. He was also strapped tightly to a chair. Opposite him was also a closed off glass cubicle. The wires from his helmet were attached to the top of this glass cubicle.

"Are you ready Heero?" Wufei asked.

"Yes."

"Ok Heero, I want you to relax. I'm going to set off some sleeping gas in the room and you will fall into a deep sleep. Let's see if we can bring that boy out of your dreams and into reality." Said Wufei as he put on a mask. He signalled to a nearby officer to release the sleeping gas into the room and within a few minutes Heero was in dreamland.

//The girl with chestnut brown hair and violet eyes was there again. Her lips were moving and Heero once again used his lip reading skills.

"Please don't hurt me. Please set me free."

"Set you free?" Heero asked mentally.

"Use your imagination." The girl mouthed. "And please don't hurt me. Just set me free and I swear that I won't bother you again."//

Dorothy watched the mind control monitors intensely. The readings on the scale showed that Heero was deep in thought. Meanwhile Quatre was using his special ability to become aware of Heero's feelings. The blonde could sense a longing coming from the Japanese. Quatre raised his head to watch the unconscious boy muttering under his breath when some movement in the glass cubicle caught his eye. Something or someone was materializing.

"Oh my Nataku! I can't believe that this is actually working." Gasped Wufei when he also saw the opaque figure in the cubicle. "That is the person Heero was talking about."

//Heero saw the girl walk towards him, her features became clearer with each step. The girl kept walked slowly and stopped centimetres before him.

"Promise that you won't hurt me if I go?"

"I've never harmed you in anyway…wait! Where are you going?"

"The door is open. Just promise me. No more pain."

"I promise."

Instead of answering the girl walked right through the Japanese boy and Heero's eyes fluttered open.//

Signals beeped and warning alarms went off the instant Heero opened his eyes.

"Argh!" he cried and held his head in his hands. He had the worst headache and tried to take the helmet off the moment he felt it."

"No Heero." Exclaimed Dorothy. "Don't take it off." But it was too late and the removed helmet was on the floor.

Still holding his head Heero looked up to see a slumped figure just opposite him. He couldn't believe his eyes when he realised that it was the girl from his dreams.

"Duo." He whispered.

Quatre suddenly burst into the room holding a glass of water and some pain killers. "Heero! Heero! Are you alright?" I felt pain so I came here with these. "Here take them. They'll make you feel better."

Heero swallowed the pills immediately but didn't take his eyes off the longhaired beauty before him. He couldn't believe that the experiment had actually worked. It had brought a person from a dream into reality. However Duo wasn't moving. She was lying on the floor in the foetal position. Heero turned to Quatre.

"Do you think that you could get Wufei to release Duo out of the cubicle?"

"Duo?" asked a puzzled Quatre. Heero pointed to the cubicle. "Oh right, the girl. Yea ok. Just hang on a moment." Quatre dashed out of the room and soon Heero heard a click indicating that the door had been unlocked.

Slowly Heero made his way towards the glass booth. He hesitated slightly before opening the door.

"Duo? Duo can you hear me?"

There was no response from the girl. Heero crouched down and moved Duo's hair away so he could have a better look at the person from his dreams. He was studying Duo's facial features when her eyelids snapped open and Heero found himself staring into the most beautiful pair of eyes he had ever seen in his life.

"You…you set me free."

Heero recognised that short phrase to be related to the recent dream that he had not long ago. Then Heero froze. That smooth, low baritone voice certainly would not belong to a female. A second glance at the naked being before him confirmed his allowed Heero to realise that Duo was extremely flat chested and that could only mean one thing. Duo was a boy.

"Y...you..." he stammered. "You set me free. Does this mean that you won't hurt me anymore?"

The Japanese boy had a puzzled look on his face. Slowly he pointed at himself.

"My…my name is Heero." The Japanese boy said slowly. "And I've never hurt you in the first place."

"YOU LIE!" the braided boy yelled suddenly causing Heero to jump. "YOU LIE! GET AWAY FROM ME!" Duo quickly curled up into a ball, his head tucked in and arms wrapped around his knees.

By now the group had gathered in the small testing facility and were watching the scene with great interest.

Wufei tapped Heero on the shoulder and indicated for him to leave the room. Heero complied and quietly slipped out of the room while Quatre comforted Duo by pulling him into a hug.

"Its alright. Everything is going to be ok but I need you to trust me. My name is Quatre and I promise that I will do everything I can to help you."

"Is…is he gone?" The braided boy asked tentatively.

"Yes. Heero is outside." Quatre.

"He promised." Whispered Duo. "He promised."

"Promised what?" Quatre was now extremely concerned.

"He promised that he wouldn't cause me any pain but he hurt me by lying."

Quatre hugged the boy again. "Here, let me help you ease the pain."