SAGP

Duo sat at his desk and stared down at the large pile of paperwork he had to do. he knew it was his own fault for not showing up for work for two days. Duo sighed as he began the boring paperwork. Slowly his mind began to wander.

Flashback

Duo laughed , but he really wanted to cry. Duo had decided to disappear, so he had gone to see Heero one last time. Heero had been more irritated than usual. For one of the few times since Duo had met Heero, he had feared Heero would hurt him. Despite all the times Heero had threatened Duo's life, Duo never feared for his life.Sometimes he just feared he would get hurt. And for the first time ever, Heero had actually hurt Duo. He had hit Duo.

Hearing the loud thump as Duo landed on his butt on the ground, all three other pilots had rushed to see what had happened. Duo simply laughed it off. At least on the outside he laughed. Heero had hit him, and that hurt worse than anything else. Even when Duo had nearly died and been in a lot of pain, it could not compare to the pain he felt.

End Flashback

Duo shook himself to escape from the memory; to escape from the pain. Duo sighed. He always had to act happy, but he wasn't usually happy. He had had to act. He had always had to be happy for the other pilots. Duo wondered if the other pilots had realized it was mostly an act. Duo continued the boring paperwork, careful not to let his mind wander again. He didn't want to think about the other pilots, since he would never see them again.

Quatre reloaded the gun as he hid behind his desk. One minute everything had been quiet as usual, the next a masked man had burst into the room and began to fire around randomly.Without warning the shooter stopped. "Now, now. Hiding from a guest? That's not very polite," the shooter laughed viciously.

"What is it that you want?" Quatre asked from behind the desk.

The shooter laughed, "A true end to the war. I want the five gundam pilots dead." Several people gasped and turned in the direction of Quatre's desk. Quatre knew he was in trouble.

"Good to know there's someone out to get us," Trowa said as he walked into the room without warning.

The shooter fell to the ground, but instead of howling in pain or dieing quietly he just laughed. His laughter made Quatre flinch and even Trowa seemed a little uneasy. "I'm not the only one. There are more of us. The SAGP will kill you," the dieing man said through the blood that had begun to flow into his mouth and out onto the floor. Trowa and Quatre stared at the dead man. Neither wanted to fight anymore.

"Hey, Matt?" one of Duo's female coworkers stuck her head in the door.

"Yeah, Chelsie? What's up?" Duo responded to the alias.

"I just wanted to tell you that some strange man keeps asking about you. Stuff like where you're from, do you have a family, etc. Everyone is getting a little nervous," Chelsie said.

"I'll look into it. Sorry to make you worried," Duo smiled. Had one of the other pilots found him already? Chelsie left and Duo let his fake smile fade. Sighing, Duo let his eyes wander. So, who would be the first one to find him? Duo was the best hacker among the pilots, although Heero was a close second, and he had made sure to hide his trail really well. Even he wasn't sure if he could follow his own trail and he knew where to look. After a good half hour of intense thought Duo sighed and gave up on figuring it out. None of the other pilots could follow him, he was sure. But that answer didn't answer the question. Who had found him?

The door flew open and Wufei stormed into Trowa's office in a fit of rage. "Who the hell is the SAGP?!" Wufei yelled.

"Went after you too, huh?" Quatre asked with a frown.

Wufei paused. "Too?"

"Quatre and Heero have also been attacked. The only reason that I haven't been attacked yet is because I did something out of the ordinary. They probably couldn't figure out where I was going," Trowa informed Wufei.

Without warning Quatre gasped. The other two pilots looked around quickly as Wufei demanded, "What?!"

"Duo! What about Duo?!" Quatre said as he began to panic. Trowa rushed to Quatre side and began to calm his blond lover. Heero's laptop flew open and he began to tap furiously.

"It's useless, Heero. Even you could never follow Duo's trail. Duo's too good at hacking," Wufei said after a few minutes. "We all have tried to follow it more than once. You know that."

Heero's fingers paused over the keys and Heero stared hard at Wufei. Suddenly Heero slammed the top on his laptop down and stood so quickly Wufei jumped and Quatre would have fallen out of his chair if it wasn't for Trowa grabbing him and holding him steady. "Fine! Then I'll go to someone who might be able to do it!" Heero yelled before storming out.

The other three pilots stared at the door in shock.After a very silent minute Wufei turned to Quatre and asked, "Well, where is he? Duo would never leave without telling you where he was going."

Quatre grimaced. "He didn't really. I just found a note on my kitchen table counter the day after he left. The note didn't say where he was going and he never contacted me since," he turned away and the other two pilots could see the tears that threatened to make themselves fall from the blonde's beautiful blue eyes. Trowa wrapped comforting arms around Quatre's shoulders.

"Then... how are we going to find Duo?" Wufei whispered. He was shocked that Duo wouldn't contact Quatre. If there was one person that they thought he would talk to it woud be Quatre. If he even left Quatre behind, then their only hope was Heero and whatever help he was getting.

"Hello, Matt," a beautiful man about 6'5" with bleach blond hair and perfect crystal blue eyes greeted Duo as he stepped out of his office. Duo looked at the man in surprise. It was nearly midnight now and he hadn't expected anyone else to be in the offices this late.

"Hi. Can I help you with omething?" Duo asked as he turned his back to the man to lock his door.

"You've become careless, Duo Maxwell," the man hissed. Duo's eyes widened in surprise as he felt a hand hit a pressure point in his neck and he fell into unconscious. The man stood above Duo's immobile body and grinned. "Don't worry, beautiful. You won't die... yet," and with a maniac cackle the man threw Duo over his shoulder and made his way out of the building and into the night.

"Damn, this guy is a great hacker. It took five professional hackers to figure out where he went, but we got it," a with big thick glassed said as Heero hovered over his shoulder.

"Where is he?" Heero demanded.

"He's hiding out in New York. Changed his name to Matt Dean and got a good office job. He moved up pretty fast. Here's his apartment address and work address. He doesn't seem to have a phone," the man said as he handed Heero a piece of paper. Not a second later he heard the door slam shut.

"I've got it," Heero said as he walked into Trowa's office without knocking. He ignored the gun and katana that were immediately raised and slammed the paper with the addresses down in front of Quatre. "Get us there, now," Heero growled at him. Quatre didn't even pause. He had the address in his left hand and the phone in his right so fast it was a blur.

"How did you get it so fast?" Wufei asked.

"I knew some hackers who owed me a favor. I just had them repay it," Heero responded.

"Alright, now tell us everything you know about Duo," Trowa said.

Heero frowned at him. "I don't know much. Duo changed his name to Matt Dean and got a job as an office worker. That's all I know," Heero responded.

Wufei stared at Heero a moment. "Duo could never sit still enough for a desk job," Wufei said.

"That was the point. It would make it even harder to find him if he took a job that we wouldn't think he would," Trowa said.

"I've got four tickets to bourd a plane in five hours. I'll pick you all up in four," Quatre cut in. Everyone headed for the door to get their things.

Duo slowly began to come around. Duo could tell he was on a concrete floor, and from a tinkle of metal and pressure on his ankle he was sure he was chained. Slowly opening his eyes, Duo looked around. He was in a small concrete prison cell with a very thick metal door, and directly across from him was a large man who had obviously been in the cell for several days. Pushing himself up Duo looked down at his ankle to confirm that there was a large chain. Turning back to the man in the room with him he asked, "Who are you?"

Before the man could answer the door flew open and the man who had knocked Duo out stepped into the room. "Alright, fatty, you have become useless. It's about time we got rid of you," the man announced. Duo winced. He was glad he didn't know the man's name now. "Oh, you've woken up. I'll have some food and medication sent in for you. I can only guess how bad your headache is," the man said when he noticed Duo was up. And with that the men disappeared and the door was closed. Duo was left alone in the silence of the tiny cell.

"What do you mean he hasn't shown up for work today?!" Wufei demanded.

Quatre quickly grabbed Wufei's arm and dragged him away from the poor woman. Heero stepped forward to take Wufei's place. "When did you last see Matt?" Heero asked only slightly calmer than Wufei.

"Um, last night. I went to warn him about some weirdo that had been asking about him a lot recently," the frightened man answered.

Heero's eyes flashed, "What kind of questions?"

The woman paused to think, "He would ask things like 'Where'd he come from?' 'Did he ever do things that were out of the ordinary?' and other really weird things. I always told him that I didn't know though."

Heero nodded, "Does Matt have a car?"

"Yeah," the woman said, "and now that I think about it, I saw his car when I parked this morning. But I checked his office and he wasn't there, so he didn't just fall asleep at his desk again."

"Can we see his office, please?" Trowa spoke up for the first time since entering the building.

The woman seemed to be trying to figure out if that was a good idea or not.She must have decided that no harm could be done because she led the group down to an office door. "This is it, but I'm not letting you into his office," she said.

"We don't need to be let in, but thank you. That's all we need," Heero cut in before Wufei could cut in and tell the woman to unlock the door or he would cut out her intestines. Wufei looked at Heero in surprise and opened his mouth to demand an explanation, but Heero grabbed him roughly by the arm and began to drag him down the hall toward the door. "Thank you for your help, ma'am," Heero called over his shoulder. Trowa and Quatre followed at a slower walk.

"Why didn't you make her open the door?!" Wufei demanded when Heero finally let him go near the car.

"Because it happened in the hall. He had already left his office. From what I saw, Duo turned his back to the culprit to lock the door. That was probably when the person knocked him out. But I don't think Duo is dead yet. I believe the kidnapper or kidnappers are planning to use Duo somehow. It is probably something only a gundam pilot could do, or they wouldn't risk capturing Duo. They probably consider him the weakest among us . Trowa protected Quatre from having Duo's fate so they went after the second best target," Heero explained as the four boys climbed into the car.

"You mean... it's my fault?" Quatre asked in a sad voice as a tear ran down his cheek.

"No! It's not your fault," Trowa tried to calm the blond Arabian.

'Trowa's right. It's not your fault. Things just turned out this way... besides, if you had gotten captured then they probably would have just killed Duo, and if they could knock him out, they could have killed him," Heero said. Quatre seemed to believe Heero more than Trowa and calmed a bit, but he wasn't completely convinced.

Duo's kidnapper stepped into the room and smiled at him. "Sorry, I couldn't come introduce myself before. I had a lot of things to take care of. My name is George. It's a pleasure to meet you," the man greeted.

"Thanks," Duo said irritably.

"George frowned. "Are you uncomfortable? Maybe I should move you somewhere more comfortable," George said as he leaned forward and pressed on of Duo's pressure points again. Duo was out before George could even pull away. With a smirk George began to unlock the chains.

Heero glared at the computer screen angrily before he began to type quickly again. The room was completely silent except for the sound of the keys being hit. "Heero, why haven't you patched us into the SAGP database yet? Do you need one of us to help?" Quatre asked softly.

Heero glared at Quatre, "I would have gotten us in if it was possible, but the SAGP doesn't exist. At least not where I can find it. It must be a private club of sorts."

Several minutes passed in silence. Finally Quatre broke the silence by asking, "What does SAGP stand for anyway?"

Everyone thought for a moment. "I bet it means Soldiers Against Gundam Pilots. At least that's the only thing I could come up with," Trowa answered.

"That would definitely explain why they would be trying to kill us," Wufei said dryly.

Duo came to slower than he had the first time, but this time instead of feeling like he was lying on a hard concrete floor, he felt like he was lying on something soft and warm. Slowly opening his eyes, Duo looked around what appeared to be a bedroom. Now that confused Duo. Why would he be in a bedroom? What were they trying to pull with the sudden royal treatment? Duo felt his heart sink as George opened a door about 10 feet away from the bottom of the bed and walked in. "Ah, are you awake, dear one?" George asked.

"What are you going to do with me?" Duo tried to demand, but his throat felt like sandpaper and his demand came out more like a croak.

George chuckled coldly, sending shivers down Duo's spine. "Oh, so much. We will have many pleasant nights, since you have been given no choice but to sleep in my bed," George's laughter was loud and full of malicious intent. Duo tried to push himself away from the man, but he could move no more than a couple inches.

"What are we going to do?!" Quatre whimpered. Trowa wrapped his arms around Quatre's waist and pulled the smaller boy onto his lap, pressing his lips to the blonds forehead in comfort. Heero stopped typing and looked up from his computer to stare at Quatre. Wufei buried his face in his hands to hide the emotions flying across his face.

Suddenly the door flew open and the man very thick glasses that had found Duo before walked in. "What is it, John?" Heero demanded.

"Just figured you would want this," the hacker held out a piece of paper to Heero. Frowning, Heero took the paper and read it.

"Thank you, John,"Heero said and managed to sound like he really meant it. John simply nodded and left the room. "We now have some interesting information about the SAGP," Heero said. Quatre jumped to his feet and grabbed the paper from Heero's hands, forgetting his normal manners. "We go now," Quatre said in an uncharacteristically firm and demanding voice. None of the other pilots, even Heero, would dare go against Quatre even if they had wanted to.

Heero carefully looked around the corner, gun at the ready. "Are you sure this is the place? There's no one here," Heero whispered to Quatre. Trowa and Wufei had split off and gone another direction as soon as they entered the building.

"This is what the paper said, I double checked more than once," Quatre answered with a frown. Suddenly there was a ping and Heero looked around to see a man hiding behind a nearby corner firing at them. Heero had just begun to return fire when several more bullets went whizzing by from different directions.

"Let's split up. You know where and when to meet back up?" Heero asked as he began to head away from Quatre. Quatre nodded and they went their different directions. As Quatre ran around what looked like an unprotected corner he ran into a large, ordinary looking man. Quatre was so surprised that he froze. The last thing he remembered was the flash of an arm headed for his neck before everything went dark.