The Notorious Adventures of Duo Maxwell and Heero Yuy
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing does not belong to me. I'm just borrowing the characters.
Warnings: None, though foul language occasionally.
Chapter One
In the busy city of Morioka, people from all walks of life passed through looking to buy and sell information.. An old man in his seventies smoked a worn cracked pipe, in the corner of a bar. A young group of men sat around a table drinking anything with alcohol in it. The room was filled with a hazy light, slightly smoky from the pipe and no one took notice when a tall dark shadow approached to stand over the old man. "Do you know of any news about the white jewel?"
"Maybe," taking his pipe out he coughed and the paused to catch his breath. "But you know how it is with old age, the memory is the first thing to go, especially since it's classified to all civilians outside police headquarters." croaked the old man. The shadow made no comment but tossed a large wad of cash on the table.
The wrinkled man fingered the bills in glee. "Oh my, I do believe my amnesia is cured." he grinned toothlessly.
He blew smoke then gestured the shadowed figure to move closer. "They say that the white jewel is located on the fourth story in the fifth room to the right. " The old man laughed wickedly, "That's all I have, you should have considered your money more wisely."
A flash of silver and the shadow was gone, leaving the old man behind, sitting at the table with a gaping hole in his throat. The roll of bills disappeared also. Nothing was heard but the clatter of his pipe as it fell to the floor.
Heero slowly opened his eyes and squinted in the direction of the window. He could hear loud alarms, and people shouting while running around frantically in the street. He sat up and covered his face with his hands gently massaging his temples. Yawning, he got out of bed and grabbed his clothes to put on.
Stepping outside he was quickly greeted by a short teenager with chestnut hair.
"Yo!"
"Hey," he replied; slouching and trying to decide if squinting would make the light any more bearable.
"What's up with you?" the other boy asked and mimicked his slumped posture, shoving his hands in his pockets, thumbs sticking out.
"I didn't get enough sleep, I was up late in a bar," Heero replied, ruffling his brown hair. "Stupid old man wouldn't tell me anything about the white jewel."
"Uh...," the chestnut haired teen scratched his chin deep in thought. Heero thought he seemed disturbed about something.
"Say, what was your name?" the other boy finally asked.
"Heero," he replied.
"Mm, doesn't ring a bell. Well I'm Duo, I might run and hide but I never tell a lie. That's me in a nut shell." Duo smiled.
Heero grunted. "You already said that last night.."
"Did I?" Duo asked in astonishment.
"Cut the crap, no one's around, so act normal. This is not what I meant by keeping a low profile." Heero glared irritably.
"Well if you hadn't just laid there snoring at the bar during the murder, I wouldn't have been almost killed trying to drag you out of there." Duo said crossly rubbing his neck in memory.
"Do we have any leads on the killer?" Heero asked. Duo sighed and nodded slightly, "Hm, a guy said he remembered a shadowy figure standing over the man, before he died."
Heero yawned, "Great. A shadowy figure. What excellent detail."
Duo chose to ignore the sarcasm. "Man, this guy is good. Killing a guy right under our shift. You do realize we're definitely going to get a transfer now. The Commander is going to kill us!"
Heero winced and wished he'd never got out of bed.
"What?" Commander Une, exclaimed. "You idiots! How could you lose our only lead on the serial killer?" She was glaring at them and fingering a letter opener on her desk in a way that made Duo very nervous. He wondered if it would look pathetic if he cowered below her tremendous fury. Heero stood there, his head bowed.
"TRANSFER!"
"Here," The company janitor, Mr. Span, shoved a mop into Duo's hands. Commander Une stalked out of the office. "Heero, I'm reassigning you to that desk over there" She pointed over to the criminal record desk.
"I'm assigning Wufei to the case, in the meantime you will have these lovely jobs for six months." With a final glare in their direction she stormed back into her office slamming the door behind.
Heero sat down behind what would become his new best friend for the next six months. He gazed at the never-ending stack of papers towering over him and sighed. "I can't believe it, I failed... I TOTALLY FAILED!"
With an eye to the Commander's door, Duo tossed his mop into the corner and waved at Heero. "See ya later partner!" Heero, stared in the direction of Duo. "Yeah..."
A Chinese teenager stood outside of the Preventer's headquarters, he wore a black leather jacket with black sunglasses, and black cargo pants. He glanced up and caught Heero watching him from the window.
"Wufei..." Heero whispered, glaring down at the cocky jerk in the parking lot.
Wufei smirked, got into his black Jaguar and peeled out leaving skid marks on the road. Heero clenched his teeth and made a fist. A hand patted his shoulder. "Don't let him get to ya, he may act the cool guy, but...well...damn..." Duo grinned and shrugged, " Just don't let him get to ya."
"There you are! Get back to the bathrooms, you're not finished yet!" Mr. Span suddenly came around the corner and bellowed.
"Got to go!" Duo ran off towards the elevator with the irate janitor right on his heels. Sighing, Heero sat back at his desk still gazing out at the sky.
Hours past as Heero sat there frowning at the papers he was sorting. None of them were on the mysterious white jewel. The prized jewel that was made in the late fourteenth century. It was said to have been made for a feudal lord in Japan. But he was killed and it went all over the world, passed on by many hands.
Duo, who had taken to hiding behind the desk Heero was sitting at, looked at the clock impatiently, "Ten more minutes." He grabbed his jacket and dashed for the elevator, skidding to a halt right in front of the last person he wanted to see.
"Uh, Commander Une!" He chirped nervously.
"Duo what are you doing? Your not leaving are you? It's still nine forty nine. You have ten minutes left."
"Uh...um..." He looked around frantically, "BATHROOM!" He sprinted over to the bathroom, and locked the door while resting his back against it.
"AAAAAAAAHHH!" Suddenly a screeching voice rang through the entire office.
"Duo..." Heero shook his head and sighed
Duo bolted out, and ran behind Heero's desk again, crouching down and doing his best to not be seen. Sally Poe also came out of the bathroom at a slow pace, rolling her sleeves up, walking towards Duo.
Heero sighed. "Again?"
"So, I just went into the wrong one that's all" Duo shrugged.
"Duo Maxwell! How many times do I have to tell you? Use the MENS!" Sally squinted into Duo's eyes, "And why did you scream? You're the pervert!"
"Man, what a day, we get transferred, I get stalked by the janitor and nearly killed by Sally Poe." Duo groaned. He and Heero often walked home together after they left for the day. "Do you think Wufei will solve the case?"
"I don't know."
"Well either way, I'll see you tomorrow." Duo said and turned into to his driveway.
"Mmf..." Heero walked on.
Two shadows stood in the room of an old condemned church.
"So what did you find about the white jewel?" The taller shadow with dark brown hair asked.
"I got some papers from the Preventer's files on the gem." There was a rustle as papers were held up for inspection.
"That's good. An old man in Japan gave me a riddle."
"Figure it out, I'll go to the police headquarters and look through their files on it." The shorter shadow with chestnut hair replied.
"Fine, but hurry; the Preventers are catching on to you. If they find out..."
"They won't," The other shadow cut in. "Heero has no idea I'm the one behind it. Besides, he's suspended for six months. So the gem is somewhere in Cuba, or the Caribbean." The shadow slouched, "This will be troublesome."
Duo awoke with a start, and sat up to find his hand clutching his gun tightly. Yawning, he put the weapon back under his pillow and gazed lazily over at his clock.
"8:27, now why does that seem important?" Suddenly he sat up, "The wedding!" Duo swore and jumped from his bed to bolt to the shower. After he got out, he grabbed his brown pants and duster, along with his white long sleeve shirt and put them on, quickly brushing his teeth and braiding his hair. He dashed out the door and got into his car.
"8:55, I should make it."
Arriving at the chapel just as the wedding was about to start, he jumped over the bench to his seat. An old lady sat next to him, staring in shock, then shook off the expression and muttered something about "youngsters these days."
The wedding was completely boring, Heero hadn't even shown up for it. The rest of the gundam boys laughed and drank, remembering when they first met. Reminiscing over the past four years since mobile suits were disbanded.
"Congratulations Quatre! Your one big pacifist family now." Duo teased.
Quatre glared. "I didn't marry her for that reason you know."
"I'm sure the colonies and earth will be pleased to hear this wedding. The Winner family from L4 joining the Peacecraft family from earth. This is the largest wedding I've ever been too!" A blonde haired man in a black suit and exceptionally dark red shirt, came over to Quatre. "Jack Grivon, Governor's secretary." He smiled and bowed slightly.
"It's nice to meet you. I assume you'll be staying here at the Sanq Kingdom for a while won't you?" Quatre asked politely.
"Yes, the Governor will be discussing issues with Milliardo Peacecraft while we stay." The man glanced at his watch and then around the room as if searching for someone. "I should be getting back to the Governor, it was a pleasure meeting you."
"Indeed." Quatre turned to see Duo trying to reach up towards Trowa's out stretched arm which held the bouquet of flowers that had been tossed by Relena earlier.
"Stop bickering, you're acting like children." Wufei scowled at them both.
The boys paused, looked at Wufei then started arguing again. "It was coming to me!" Duo grouched. "Well, I caught it!" Trowa teased back, still waving the flowers out of Duo's reach.
"So, does anyone know where Heero is?" Quatre asked curiously.
"Nope," They all said together. "You'd think he would have shown up, I know for a fact he's on earth." Duo added.
"Will you cut it out!" Wufei snapped.
Duo guiltily brought his hands down and Trowa offered the flowers to Wufei in apology. In response, the Chinese boy snorted and folded his arms.
Quatre sighed, "I kind of figured Heero wouldn't, he didn't strike me as a wedding type of guy."
"Well I was hoping for Heero to come, I wanted to see who was better at fencing." Milliardo added, joining the group.
"Heero has changed a lot since the war." Duo remarked softly.
"Quatre, the dance," his sister called. Quatre put his wine glass down, "Oh, right."
A figure stood up on the balcony within the curtains, Heero watched his friends laugh and talk, slowly being picked to dance one by one. He smiled slightly.
"How come you weren't at the wedding Heero?" Duo asked. They were at work, Heero once again slogging through his stack of never ending paperwork and Duo once again hiding behind his desk.
"Mnn..." He grunted.
"Well you could have at least stopped by to say hi to Relena." Duo exclaimed.
"I did."
"What?" Duo scrunched his eyebrows in confusion. Sometimes I really don't get this guy...
"I told you to keep cleaning!" Mr. Span suddenly bellowed from the other room.
"Yeah, yeah!" Duo yelled back
"Man, four months left till we get our old jobs back," Duo moaned.
A look of sympathy briefly crossed Heero's face, "Yeah."
Duo was slowly gathering his mop and bucket when the buzzer announced that someone was at the door. Heero hit the switch to pop the lock and a mailman entered the room. "Uh, is there a Duo Maxwell?"
"Over here!"
"I've got a package for you, if you could just sign here."
"But I didn't order anything from..." Duo picked up the box to study the address more closely and the mailman dashed to the door. Startled, Duo looked up and didn't see the red flashing coming from the box.
"Get down!" Heero shouted. He grabbed the small package from Duo's hands, and threw it out the open window. The package fell four floors and when it hit the ground there was a huge shaking explosion. There was no time to be wondering who sent the bomb because suddenly the window next to the open one shattered as bullets whizzed past Heero and Duo's heads. Papers fluttered everywhere, desks were blown to pieces, more windows were shattered.
Mr. Span, who had run in when Heero yelled, suddenly whipped out a pistol of his own. Grabbing the metal supply cart, he flung himself on it and fired several rounds while the cart flew with amazing speed across the room until it crashed into the wall. Duo and Heero looked to see if he was ok only to find him on top of a desk firing an M16.
"What the hell?" Heero said bewildered.
The janitor finally hit his target. The sniper unhooked his gun and ducked grabbing a shoulder, suddenly without warning he leaped off the five story building he had been perched on. Down below, Heero and Duo could hear cars breaks screeching and people yelling.
In confusion, Duo and Heero turned to stare at the janitor who was casually counting the remaining bullets in his gun. "Agent Jasper at your service, I've been tailing the same suspect as Preventers for quite a long time."
"What agency are you from?" Heero asked sternly.
"More importantly, where did you get that sweet piece of hardware?" Duo asked enviously.
"I'm from the CIA," the newly promoted janitor answered, ignoring Duo.
Heero looked around for the mailman, but he was gone. "So why was someone trying to kill us? Aside from the obvious."
"I've no clue, but my objective was to see if Preventers was in danger. CIA headquarters were right." Jasper said.
"What the hell is going on in here?" Commander Une stepped into the room through the broken door. She gasped, taking in the sight bit by bit. Duo with a rifle, Heero with his kimber .45 pointed at the janitor, and the janitor with his hands up.
"We were just attacked by a sniper and the janitor whipped out all sorts of artilleries and scared him off!" Duo explained.
Commander Une's eye twitched.
"It's true Commander, CIA sent me to infiltrate Preventers, they've had suspicions of a possible attack."
"Mm, come in my office, we'll talk about this case." Commander Une ordered, relieved it wasn't another pointless escapade. "And you two," she stabbed her finger toward Heero and Duo, "Clean up this mess."
It took several hours but finally Duo, Heero and a few other employees cleaned up the disaster that was left of the office. Glancing at the Commanders closed door, they hurried away before she could assign them any more tasks. As they walked home they discussed the incident.
"Duo, we need to find out the reason for all this."
"And how do you propose we do that? We aren't exactly Une's favorite people at the moment."
"I know, but should we sit at our desks to be killed?" Heero eyed Duo.
"Well, no."
"Then we start tomorrow. Pack your bags, we're going to Cuba." Heero stared straight forward.
TBC...