A/N Just my idea of how the rescue of Allelujah should have gone, because am I the only one who thought it really odd that after being held hostage for four years, kept in a straight jacket and tortured, wouldn't one of the other pilots offer him a little assistance, instead of Setsuna just shooting the chains on his feet and magically undoing everything else?...I thought so too. And there was also no angst after this, and I think there should have been at least some trauma after being held captive for four years.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam 00 or any of the characters… sadly, because if I did this part of the series would have been much more realistic… in a way.

"Excuse me, but I've got a request

Could you take this gag out of my mouth.

I admit that I'm fairly impressed

Cause you're the best at blocking me out."

Relient K - From End to End

Chapter 1

Operation Allelujah Rescue

Darkness, pain, confusion; these were the things that went through Allelujah Haptism's mind.

Four years he had been left alone in the dark cell.

Four years in darkness. Being tortured relentlessly every day since the battle ended.

Four years thinking about how wonderful death would be. To think about how he deserved to rot away in there for the things that he had done, so when he heard all of the racket outside, he knew that death wasn't going to come just yet.

But something lit up inside of him reminding him that Marie was alive, and he wasn't going to leave her behind. Not again.

They'll come break me out of here he thought, and then I can save Marie and apologize to her for leaving her behind.

He was starting to slip in and out of consciousness when the door opened.

Setsuna stood with a gun pointed at him it seemed.

He lifted his head as much as e could and look at the younger boy—no, he wasn't a boy anymore. The Setsuna F. Seiei standing before him was a man now. And he had missed seeing him become that man.

He wanted to say something, anything to let Setsuna know that he was still alive, or to ask him to not pull the trigger. He almost panicked when he heard the gun shot ring out, but it didn't hit him. He let his head drop and barely saw the bullets hitting the chains and finally breaking them.

Someone else ran in then. A girl; she ran to him and started unbuckling everything keeping him trapped. She moved behind him and undid the muzzle and removed it, letting it fall to the ground in disgust.

He wanted to say thank you, but his voice wasn't working.

"Come on," Setsuna said. Even his voice seemed to have changed over the years.

Allelujah tried to get up, but before he could stand completely, his knees buckled under him. Figures, he thought as he saw Setsuna hand the gun to the girl and go to him, helping him stand and holding onto him. The kid I fought a war with is the one breaking me out of a high security prison.

"Arios is being sent with the other Gundams," he said.

"What's Arios?" Allelujah asked, feeling a strain in his voice.

"You're new Gundam."

Allelujah nodded, "What about Tieria?"

"He's holding them off, but we need to leave—now."

Allelujah simply nodded again and moved as fast as he could to keep up with Setsuna. His muscles were sore and stiff, so it was pretty difficult.

The girl ran along side of him, though she seemed to be doing much better than he was. He decided that if—no, when they got out of there, he would take a hot shower, eat a hot, good tasting meal, and then sleep in a nice cozy bed. Well, before he could do any of that he was obviously going to have to talk to everyone about what happened. He wasn't sure what he would tell them though; he didn't remember most of what had happened, but he remembered being taken out of his Gundam and waking up in a weird infirmary.

The halls were pretty dark. It looked like the power had been shut down, but they soon came to a hall full of windows, and outside there was a battle going on.

Outside; how he had longed for it, to be able to go out into the world and be free. Free from all of the pain and darkness. Free to travel the world without having to worry about anything—

Setsuna was getting into his Gundam, the girl following him into 00.

And there was Arios. It looked somewhat like Kyrios, but obviously a better model.

He was going to get in when there was a lick behind him. The cockpit of 00 was about to close when the girl looked afraid and Setsuna called to him. But he didn't hear Setsuna, or hear the girl scream for him to run.

"Don't move, Subject E-57."

Despite being afraid for his life, he smiled and turned around.

"Marie," he said. "It's me Marie, Allelujah! Don't you remember me?"

"My name is not Marie!" she yelled at him, but he only moved closer. "I said don't move! I will shoot!"

"You wouldn't kill me Marie," he said, and to Soma's dismay, he had a smile on his face.

"Stop calling me that! My name is not Marie; it is Soma Peries, Super Soldier!"

"Allelujah get out of there!" Setsuna called. Allelujah saw the look of concern on the younger mans face from the corner of his eye.

Concern; Setsuna F. Seiei was showing concern for him. Had Setsuna shown concern when he was told where he was? Or did he not care? Did any of them care, and they only came because they needed another pilot to fight with them. Two pilots wasn't going to cut it, so they just wanted him back to fight.

"I don't know what they did to you Marie, but your name is not Soma Peries. Your name is Marie Parfacy."

Soma paused with a pained look on her face. "That name…" she muttered. She grabbed her head in pain and collapsed to her knees as several other guards came running, all holding guns. "What did you do to me?" she asked in a low voice.

"Marie—" Allelujah started to step toward her when the guards reached her.

"Stay away from her!" one yelled firing a shot at Allelujah. It missed, but it was enough for Setsuna.

"Allelujah get out of there! We're out of time!"

He was about to get into Arios when they opened fire on him. He ducked behind a wall and waited a few seconds before rushing out and into Arios.

The cockpit closed as bullets bounced off.

He looked over the controls, not using the belt for personal reasons and took off after 00, following him into the water. Seravee followed after, and another unknown Gundam.

They dove down and found the ship. He was free, and had no intention of ever going back to that place.

He landed and exited Arios, catching himself when his knees buckled again.

The first to greet him was Ms. Sumeragi. She walked over to him as if she had been waiting for a long time. He noticed her taking in all of the bruises that covered his skin, and the dark circles under his eyes.

"Allelujah," she said, and then muttered to herself, "alleluia."

"Ms. Sumeragi," he said, a smile coming across his pained features.

"It's good to have you back," she finally said.

"It's good to be back."

Nothing else was said. She wanted to ask about how he had gotten captured, but decided to wait, so to not bring up anything that would rather not be remembered just yet, though she did want to know about what happened.

After a few awkward minutes he excused himself and found his way to his room. There were clean sheets on the bed, a big fluffy blanket, and a nice soft pillow.

The shower could wait; he wanted to sleep and he wanted it now. And besides, why pass up on a bed when he'd slept in a chair for the last four years? Well, more like napped, because there wasn't very much sleeping involved. And how could he pass up a blanket when all he had to keep him warm was that cursed straight-jacket? And a pillow was just a luxury to be able to put his head on, when all he head was the back of the seat, which was very uncomfortable to lean back on when he had a muzzle tied behind his head.

It was cold in the ship and he had no other clothes, so he had to wear the same thing he had been wearing. He only minded it because it smelled like a mix of blood, sweat, and prison. Yeah, didn't smell nice at all.

He got into the bed and pulled the blanket up to his chin, curling onto his side. As soon as his head hit the pillow he was asleep.

"Test Subjest E-57," the voice said. He recognized it, but wished that he didn't.

"Marie," he tried to say, but his voice was muffled. He realized that he wasn't just gagged, but he was wearing a muzzle.

He wanted to reach up and tear it off, but his arms wouldn't move.

"E-57," Soma Peries repeated.

He wanted to tell her to be quiet. His head hurt so much.

"This is him? The pilot of the Winged One?" a man asked.

"Yes, Test Subject E-57, Allelujah Haptism," another says.

"What about the injury to his head?" yet another voice asked.

"It is still healing, but not as serious as it was when we retrieved him from the Gundam," the second voice said.

How did they know his name? He wanted to ask, but he knew that he couldn't because of the muzzle. Everything was blurry, and then he remembered the last time that he woke up. He had overheard some nurses talking about how he had a concussion, and it disturbed his quantum brainwaves or something like that.

Then it hit him; his quantum brainwaves were disturbed, and he vaguely remembered Hallelujah telling him something about having to leave. Hallelujah was gone.

"Has he said anything about Celestial Being yet?" the first voice asked.

"He arrived here yesterday, so we haven't interrogated him yet," the second said. He seemed to be in charge.

Allelujah tried to open his eyes and look at everyone, but his eye lids were too heavy to lift. He wanted to sleep so badly.

"Wake him up," the third said. "We need to know everything he does. We need to find out where Celestial Being is hiding."

No, no, no, no, he wanted to sleep! They couldn't wake him up now, not yet.

He was shaken, hard, for about five minutes before he finally got the strength to open his eyes. There was barely any light in the room, only coming in through the window on the door, but his eyes burned from it anyway.

"Now kid, we need to know a few things," the third guy said. He was tall with nicely brushed hair, but the smug look on his face made him look anything but well-groomed. "If you cooperate it won't hurt as much."

He looked away from the man and saw Marie in the corner, simply staring at him as if waiting to see what he would do first.

"We need to know where Celestial Being is hiding," the first guy said while the second stepped behind the chair and undid the muzzle.

He wanted to call out to Marie for help, but he thought better of it and said nothing. He didn't think he could talk. If only his head didn't hurt so—he was jerked awake by a stabbing in his side. Guy number three had a knife stuck into him and he felt blood flow out of the open wound.

He made no sound. He couldn't let them see weakness from them, he knew that. This early on would just make it worse.

The others would realize that he was gone and come for him. He knew they would.

Before he could even fully register the knife being yanked out of his side, he felt an even worse pain from his head as a fist collided with it. Obviously these idiots hadn't been alerted to the fact that he had a concussion.

"You going to talk kid?" guy number one asked. "Or are we just going to have to make you!" he slammed his fist into Allelujah's stomach causing him to spit up some blood.

The hideous suit that he was wearing was already getting drenched, and he didn't think they would be so kind as to let him change into a different one.

Guy number three was about to punch him in the face again when number two stopped him, "That's enough!" he barked.

Number two fastened the muzzle and stepped in front of Allelujah.

"You could save yourself this pain if you'd talk, kid," he said. "This is just a glimpse of what's to come."

He led the other two men out of the room, and Soma followed.

It was dark again, and he felt tears welling up in his eyes.

All sorts of thoughts went through his mind about whether or not the other Meisters would come for him or not.

Without Hallelujah with him, he felt alone.

Allelujah jerked up suddenly, panting heavy and sweating like crazy.

"Allelujah, you ok?"

He looked over and saw Setsuna in the doorway.

It bothered him to see the younger man looking so much older now, and looking after him.

"I'm fine," he said quietly.

"You didn't seem fine."

"What do you mean?"

Setsuna sighed, "you were screaming," he replied. "You called for Marie. You asked her to save you from them."

Allelujah said nothing, and then noticed that Setsuna seemed to me looking at something.

With his dirty hair matted with sweat, it wasn't covering the scar on his forehead that he had gotten from that last battle.

"What's that from?"

"Uh, I don't wanna talk about it," Allelujah replied. He wasn't ready to talk about that yet, and would rather just explain it to everyone at once.

"Fine," Setsuna said, losing what concern he had, "I'll get out of your way then."

"Wait, Setsuna, who was that girl with you?"

"Melina," he replied. "She was also being kept in detention, though not as tight as you were."

Allelujah nodded, lying back down.

"Get some rest. Sumeragi wants to talk with you later about what happened."

"Ok," the older man replied closing his eyes.

He was again asleep, reliving the past four years in his dreams.

TBC…

Ok, so what do you think? I haven't really seen the whole first or second season, but this episode and the one after it were the first ones that I saw and I thought "Pfft yeah, cause some guy could be tortured and kept in a straightjacket for four years would be able to pilot a Gundam and run around a building with ease!" So I just thought "know what? Imma do a story about it!" so I did!

And also, how I did it was instead of going and getting Allelujah first, Setsuna just broke out Melina first, because I thought that he would at least be logical enough to think that Allelujah might need a little assistance… so yeah, just hit that little button there and tell me what you think, cause I thought that it was pretty good, but I have also gone days with only a few hours of sleep every night and a screaming niece who is 19 months and doesn't talk yet, and now a new born nephew who just wants to be held, sleep, and eat…