Cut Through the Madness: A side story to Magatama
Part One: Disappear this Morning
"Run to the Water" by: Live
In a moment we lost our minds here
and dreamt the world was round
a million mile fall from grace
thank god we missed the ground.
Run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
with a nuclear fire of love in our hearts
There are at least five hundred trillion starts in the known universe. The closest one resides ninety-three million, four hundred thousand, eighty-two miles away.
Who or what placed him next to this star, Duo did not know. The scientists told him how the universe had occurred by the piecing together of space debris and amino acids. Father Maxwell and Sister Helen had told him a story about God creating the world over six days and resting on the seventh. At first, God only made the male of the human race, but when he saw that Adam, the man, was lonely, He made a woman out of one of the man's ribs. This he found equally hard to believe, but the latter variation was simpler on the senses, and welcoming.
Right now, he wanted to reach out or curse whichever force placed him here. How dare He.
Duo had no right being a gundam pilot. All he had was a blood lust for revenge. He shouldn't have been in that suit right then.
And now, here he was, dragging a destroyed suit along beside his. The Peacemillion slowly appeared on his view screen. He scowled.
"Hilde, how ya doing?" His voice was cold and cutting. Only the question revealed any concern.
His temples pulsated from the extreme clench at which his jaw was held. Normally bright eyes dulled and zeroed in on Peacemillion. The glower became more electrifying the longer it took for her to answer.
"Hilde?"
Still no answer.
"Hilde!" His voice cracked with panic."
"Mein welt...mein lieb...disk...." she said.
He humphed to himself in relief and began docking procedures as well as he could considering his load.
He thrust Hilde's suit in where it was slowed by a series of catch-nets. Duo landed Deathscythe slightly unsteadily and launched himself through the air to Hilde, where crews were already working on opening the hatch and cleaning debris.
A man with a crow bar was prying into the opining mechanism, coaxing the occupant to open up the cockpit from inside. Duo landed near him, narrowly avoiding someone with a space rod, which acted much like a blowtorch. He wrenched the pry-bar from the first man and jammed it directly onto the opening mechanism. The space rod had completed his run around the hinges. Before anyone else had a chance to assist him, Duo had ripped the door from its holding with a scream of exertion.
He stood over her for moment. A serene flicker flowed over his features before he again too on Shinigami and violently told someone to him a fucking doctor damn it!
He checked her for serious back or neck injuries then scooped her from the cockpit. Standing there with her bleeding in his arms, scowling and smudged with dirt, he was a formidable sight.
A stretcher rolled in and Duo jumped off the mobile suit, drifting gracefully through the zero gravity and landed softly on the floor. he placed Hilde gently on the portable bed and began pushing it himself to the medical wing.
Once there, one of the intermediary doctors attempted shooing him off. Duo, still pissed as all Hell's glory said nothing, but followed him closely into the small examination room and stood looming in the doorway as she was examined. He even gentlemanly averted his eyes while she was being changed into her hospital gown.
Duo patted the disk in his picket as the doctor inserted an IV into her hand.
"Duo...." she murmured. "Duo..."
He rose an eyebrow and slowly stalked to her bedside.
"What is it, Babe?"
"Shh....English, can you speak English?"
"Yeah..."
"Sir, it's time for her to go to surgery," an attendant said.
"Can you give us just one goddamn-fucking minute!" Duo said, turning to Hilde and smiling. The attendant left.
"What is it Babe?"
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"I snuck onto the ship and got the data on Libra, and met Relena Peacecraft and left and then I lost the disk with the data."
At least she remembers, he thought. "I have the disk," he said, caressing her face softly, pushing her bangs from her eyes.
"No, I dropped it when I was attacked, I lost it..."
He pulled the disk out of his pocket and held it up triumphantly for her to see.
I told you, I have it. I'll put it to good use as soon as I know you're all right."
"Excuse me, Sir," A doctor said. "I'm going to have to ask you to leave. Miss Schbeiker must go to surgery."
"I need to talk to him," Hilde said groggily.
"Miss Schbeiker, I really must recommend that--"
Duo stood up straight and puffed out his chest. "The lady only needs a minute!"
The doctor nodded and stepped back, giving his permission for a brief conference.
"Will you be here when I get back?"
"You bet, Babe." He kissed her cheek, winked, and waltzed out of the room to find the others outside waiting.
Instead of stopping in shock like he was inclined to do, he smiled sheepishly and placed his hands in his pockets before becoming somber like the rest.
"How is she?" Quatre asked, taking the disk from Duo.
"She's got a collapsed lung, a broken leg, and some debris lodged in her, but she'll be okay," Duo responded, letting out a little steam, but still set on a low boil.
Just then, they wheeled Hilde out of the room and down the corridor to the operating room.
They all watched her roll away. Duo wanted to cry and scream and hug her all at once. He couldn't lose another one. He couldn't.
"We won't let the data she brought us go to waste," Quatre reassured him.
"Yeah..." He couldn't let anything go to waste. Nothing. "Heero....it looks like Relena Peacecraft is on the Libra."
"Relena?"
The corners of Duo's mouth twitched with a teasing smiled. Heero had always had a bit of an infatuation with her hadn't he?
"Yeah....Seems that Hilde met her there."
His face again turned dark as his eyes traced the invisible tracks Hilde's stretcher had left on the white tiled floor.
Part One: Disappear this Morning
"Run to the Water" by: Live
In a moment we lost our minds here
and dreamt the world was round
a million mile fall from grace
thank god we missed the ground.
Run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
with a nuclear fire of love in our hearts
There are at least five hundred trillion starts in the known universe. The closest one resides ninety-three million, four hundred thousand, eighty-two miles away.
Who or what placed him next to this star, Duo did not know. The scientists told him how the universe had occurred by the piecing together of space debris and amino acids. Father Maxwell and Sister Helen had told him a story about God creating the world over six days and resting on the seventh. At first, God only made the male of the human race, but when he saw that Adam, the man, was lonely, He made a woman out of one of the man's ribs. This he found equally hard to believe, but the latter variation was simpler on the senses, and welcoming.
Right now, he wanted to reach out or curse whichever force placed him here. How dare He.
Duo had no right being a gundam pilot. All he had was a blood lust for revenge. He shouldn't have been in that suit right then.
And now, here he was, dragging a destroyed suit along beside his. The Peacemillion slowly appeared on his view screen. He scowled.
"Hilde, how ya doing?" His voice was cold and cutting. Only the question revealed any concern.
His temples pulsated from the extreme clench at which his jaw was held. Normally bright eyes dulled and zeroed in on Peacemillion. The glower became more electrifying the longer it took for her to answer.
"Hilde?"
Still no answer.
"Hilde!" His voice cracked with panic."
"Mein welt...mein lieb...disk...." she said.
He humphed to himself in relief and began docking procedures as well as he could considering his load.
He thrust Hilde's suit in where it was slowed by a series of catch-nets. Duo landed Deathscythe slightly unsteadily and launched himself through the air to Hilde, where crews were already working on opening the hatch and cleaning debris.
A man with a crow bar was prying into the opining mechanism, coaxing the occupant to open up the cockpit from inside. Duo landed near him, narrowly avoiding someone with a space rod, which acted much like a blowtorch. He wrenched the pry-bar from the first man and jammed it directly onto the opening mechanism. The space rod had completed his run around the hinges. Before anyone else had a chance to assist him, Duo had ripped the door from its holding with a scream of exertion.
He stood over her for moment. A serene flicker flowed over his features before he again too on Shinigami and violently told someone to him a fucking doctor damn it!
He checked her for serious back or neck injuries then scooped her from the cockpit. Standing there with her bleeding in his arms, scowling and smudged with dirt, he was a formidable sight.
A stretcher rolled in and Duo jumped off the mobile suit, drifting gracefully through the zero gravity and landed softly on the floor. he placed Hilde gently on the portable bed and began pushing it himself to the medical wing.
Once there, one of the intermediary doctors attempted shooing him off. Duo, still pissed as all Hell's glory said nothing, but followed him closely into the small examination room and stood looming in the doorway as she was examined. He even gentlemanly averted his eyes while she was being changed into her hospital gown.
Duo patted the disk in his picket as the doctor inserted an IV into her hand.
"Duo...." she murmured. "Duo..."
He rose an eyebrow and slowly stalked to her bedside.
"What is it, Babe?"
"Shh....English, can you speak English?"
"Yeah..."
"Sir, it's time for her to go to surgery," an attendant said.
"Can you give us just one goddamn-fucking minute!" Duo said, turning to Hilde and smiling. The attendant left.
"What is it Babe?"
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"I snuck onto the ship and got the data on Libra, and met Relena Peacecraft and left and then I lost the disk with the data."
At least she remembers, he thought. "I have the disk," he said, caressing her face softly, pushing her bangs from her eyes.
"No, I dropped it when I was attacked, I lost it..."
He pulled the disk out of his pocket and held it up triumphantly for her to see.
I told you, I have it. I'll put it to good use as soon as I know you're all right."
"Excuse me, Sir," A doctor said. "I'm going to have to ask you to leave. Miss Schbeiker must go to surgery."
"I need to talk to him," Hilde said groggily.
"Miss Schbeiker, I really must recommend that--"
Duo stood up straight and puffed out his chest. "The lady only needs a minute!"
The doctor nodded and stepped back, giving his permission for a brief conference.
"Will you be here when I get back?"
"You bet, Babe." He kissed her cheek, winked, and waltzed out of the room to find the others outside waiting.
Instead of stopping in shock like he was inclined to do, he smiled sheepishly and placed his hands in his pockets before becoming somber like the rest.
"How is she?" Quatre asked, taking the disk from Duo.
"She's got a collapsed lung, a broken leg, and some debris lodged in her, but she'll be okay," Duo responded, letting out a little steam, but still set on a low boil.
Just then, they wheeled Hilde out of the room and down the corridor to the operating room.
They all watched her roll away. Duo wanted to cry and scream and hug her all at once. He couldn't lose another one. He couldn't.
"We won't let the data she brought us go to waste," Quatre reassured him.
"Yeah..." He couldn't let anything go to waste. Nothing. "Heero....it looks like Relena Peacecraft is on the Libra."
"Relena?"
The corners of Duo's mouth twitched with a teasing smiled. Heero had always had a bit of an infatuation with her hadn't he?
"Yeah....Seems that Hilde met her there."
His face again turned dark as his eyes traced the invisible tracks Hilde's stretcher had left on the white tiled floor.