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(Thoughts)
Mobile Suit or Nightmare reference
Snow White's message
Chapter Three
"It is as I suspected".
Heero said this with almost a trace of emotion upon his face.
He was viewing some of the videos from the Ghetto.
"White, this world is strange in deed".
He had gone over to the computer the minute Lelouch left the room.
"White, I need access to the Britannian Scientific Development Departments files".
The screen glowed and windows that contained digital documents opened.
Heero looked at the large number of new windows that White had opened up.
"This will occupy a large amount of my time".
He clicked upon one and began to read it, it was going to be a long night indeed.
The next day Lelouch had come to Heero with his plan to save Suzaku.
Before he could even open his mouth Heero said.
"I'm not involved".
Now Lelouch did not know why but he could tell that Heero was not doing this out of laziness.
"Do you believe the arrival of two masked figures would cause a split between those who would follow us"?
Heero turned his head to face him and said"Yes".
"But we already told the others that you are Zero One"?
Heero now looked him in the eye and said "The two of us do not have to be together for your plan to succeed".
Lelouch was not fool, he knew that Heero must have consulted the SWZS in order to come to this conclusion.
"Or he knows he was to do something else".
Lelouch decided to choose his words carefully and said.
"Did you find something that holds more interest for you"?
"The women who was dead at your feet, she is alive".
The bluntness of Heero's answer almost threw Lelouch off, almost.
"That is impossible, she took a bullet straight threw the head".
Heero shook his head "the SWZS does not lie, she is alive, I have found proof within the Britannian SDD that proves it".
"The SDD, that stands for Scientific Development Department".
Lelouch thought this as he looked at Heero.
"If she is alive, even though she took a bullet through the head, why do you wish to find her".
Lelouch saw that Heero must have known more than he let on.
"She holds secrets that you and I are required to know".
Lelouch took a step back and said "So in other words, she has something that we both want".
Heero shook his head "The files I pulled up last night, many of them had parts erased".
Lelouch's eyes narrowed.
The SWZS could hack anything, why did it not have the information that Heero needed.
"A theory I have, is that the files were edited before they were uploaded".
Lelouch closed his eyes and said "Can't the SWZS recreate it from the data you have"?
Heero shook his head and said "I have the files open for you, the relevant ones".
Lelouch went over to the computer and then began to look through what Heero had said.
"I see, I apologies, you can't recreate what is not mentioned or hinted at".
Heero confirmed this with a nod, to be honest with himself Lelouch was rather pleased with this.
It meant that the Zero System was not Omni and could be beaten.
"I wonder how good is Heero without the Zero system".
He left Heero's room as he got a message again from the same Snow White.
Lelouch was a little disturbed by it. "Do you think that you can beat me, Lelouch"?
Lelouch turned back to Heero's room and showed him the message.
"My advice is that you don't anger him, he can guess what we're thinking".
Lelouch looked at Heero "What else did you find out about that woman"?
Heero looked back at him and said.
"Only that she was been around since before your birth, she also does not seem to age".
Lelouch shook his head "No, that is impossible".
Heero shrugged "So is a surviving a bullet to the head".
Heero took off his uniform and put on his white coat.
"Its not too hot so I can still wear this".
Since his time in Ashford Academy he was able to see that a young man walking around in a singlet would appear rather strange.
"This Britannia, it is more twisted than the White Fang".
He shook his head as the image of the Barton Foundation came into his mind.
"They are worse than that man, I can see that they have no respect for human life".
Drawing the curtains he said "That woman what is she White"?
He put his gun in his holster and tucked it out of sight, but within reach, he was about to exit the door when Milly opened it!
It took all of Heero's strength not to whip out the gun and firing.
"Oh so you are going out, you do know that it is still a weekday and you have to go to class".
Heero could see that she was not going to let him just walk past her.
"An obstacle, I will have to secure a way to get past her".
Now there were three options that came to Heero's mind.
"Play along with her then sneak out".
"Tell her I can do what I want and leave".
"Knock her out cold and leave her here".
Heero walked up to her and said.
"Hit me give me your best".
Milly was a little taken aback by this, "Wait why"?
Heero said "Why do you toy with others"?
Now Milly did admit to herself that she did enjoy teasing the rest of the student council but she did not believe that she toyed with them.
"If you are angry then hit me".
Now Milly was not prone to violence but somehow Heero had pushed all the right buttons.
Milly's hand slapped into Heero's face, but Heero did not budge. Looking her in the eye he said.
"That's all your getting".
The his fist plunged into Milly's stomach and she curled over onto his shoulder.
"Wh-What, why in the world".
Heero could see she was about to faint and said.
"Were even now, one for one".
As her legs gave way Heero caught her and put her on a chair.
He picked up the drive with SWZS on it, logged off the computer and left the room closing the door behind him.
"Objective cleared, continuing mission".
He was just about to take a step when his heighten hearing picked up soft footsteps behind him.
Heero whirled around just in time to see a punch coming his way.
His years upon years of training and conditioning kicked in.
Grabbing the incoming hand he skilfully twisted body to the side and slammed his elbow into his attackers chest.
Heero felt a rib snap as he let go and Sayoko dropped to the floor, a small trickle of blood coming out from her mouth.
"I would be better off if they both died wouldn't I".
He did run through a few scenarios in his mind but then gave up, body disposal was the only obstacle that he would have trouble with.
Knowing that he could not just leave her on the floor Heero put Sayoko in his room on the other chair.
He could see that Milly would stir within five minutes.
"There have been too many distractions I need to get moving again".
Heero then took care not to run into anyone on his way out of the Student Council building.
As for leaving the school that was no problem he already knew all the patterns of the cameras and was sure he could make it out.
After all he had Snow White hack all the camera's when he first used the computer.
He now was walking out to the highway. "Objective find a form of transportation".
He knew that he had to get to the ghetto and back quickly, at least before sundown.
He saw what appeared to be a military vehicle approaching him.
"Transport in sight, continuing mission".
Heero waited for it to almost pass him before he performed an almost inhuman feat. To any who were watching, which there were none, he jumped under the vehicle and grabbed on.
"Continuing mission".
Lelouch had seen Heero leave the school, in the back of his mind he knew that Heero must have hacked the camera's.
He got a message on his phone from that same Snow White.
"The Pilot left a mess in his room, sought it out for him Lelouch".
Lelouch did not know if he wanted to know what type of mess Heero left.
Heading at his full speed to Heero's room, which was not very fast given the fact that he was not athletic.
Opening the door to his horror he saw an knocked out Milly and Sayoko.
"What the hell is that idiot thinking"!
Lelouch did his best not to say this out loud.
He saw that Sayoko was stirring so he had to come up with a plan soon.
As Sayako open her eyes Lelouch activated his Geass and said.
"Believe the story that I am going to say"!
The command transferred to Sayoko and she nodded.
"You brought Milly in her because you found outside unconscious, this was the only spare room, you saw nothing of Heero nor did he do anything to you or Milly, I never said this too or was here"!
Sayoko nodded, Lelouch could see that his command had worked.
"What was he thinking, did he really need to do this to these two".
He took a deep breath in and sighed as Sayoko began attending to Milly.
"He had less emotion than those soldiers, but that might not be a bad thing".
Lelouch left the room and waited, he heard a gasp, which was Milly getting up with a fright.
Opening the door he said.
"Heero I heard a noise what is wrong".
It took his best effort to look surprised at see two women in there.
"Oh, Milly you and Sayoko aren't trying to spy or steal from Heero are you"?
Milly stood up and said "That, that Heero hit me"!
In the back of his mind Lelouch thought "I don't really blame him for it".
"Oh now Miss Ashford, I found you outside and brought you in here because it was easily available".
Milly turned to look at Sayoko and said "No way, I remember talking to him about leaving school grounds and he told me to hit him".
Lelouch made a surprised face at this and said "He told you to hit him"?
In his head though he was laughing "Heero made her hit him so he could hit her, what a ridiculous story, this makes my work easier".
Lelouch raised his hands and said "So Heero Yuy was able to make the beautiful, seductive, clam and charismatic Student Council President hit him".
A look of dread crossed Milly's face, Student Council President's were not suppose to hit people.
"For your sake, I hope what you're saying is a hallucination, I mean if you hit him and he hit you, there would be trouble for the both of you".
Milly gritted her teeth at these words, Lelouch could see that she was one move away from conceding.
She stood up and left the room without a word, Lelouch did not smile with his mouth, no the joy of a job well done lay within his eyes.
"Checkmate".
Echoed within his mind, now he need to get to the location of the meeting, after dressing up as Zero and he could set his plans in motion.
Lelouch then left the room and went to his own.
A message came in saying "Well played Lelouch".
Now Lelouch replied to it with a text.
"Will I be able to pull off my plan to save Suzaku"?
The reply he got was instant "You can and will, remember I am watching you Lelouch Vi Britannia".
At this Lelouch did not know if he should be impressed or worried.
"I need to act now".
Taking a suitcase with him out of the school to an unidentifiable area he made his way to a certain nobles house.
The name and who he was was irrelevant to him, only that he could demand from him the equipment and money required to start off his first plan.
"I will succeed, I am Zero after all, I will show the world that Britannia can be beaten".
Lelouch hate the idles his father put out, he would never follow them, to do so would be to betray Nunnally and he would never betray Nunnally".
Lelouch had returned to Ashford Academy and was about to climb the stair case when he heard a voice call out to him.
"Lelouch, where is your friend Heero"? It was Nunnally,she was in her room calling to him, Lelouch knew he had to go to her.
"What is it Nunnally, what do you want with Heero".
She smiled at him, a sign that she was grateful that he had come.
"I wanted to thank him, last night I don't know the hour I awoke when my windows blew open".
"I don't know how they opened up themselves Lelouch but I called out and now one answered".
Then I heard a knock on the door and Heero asked if what was the matter".
"I told him my windows were open and he came in and closed them".
"Then he left without a word not stopping to ask for thanks of any kind".
Lelouch was able to smile at the tale his sister told him "It seems he has a human side after all but, then again so do I".
"Don't worry when I see Heero next, I'll ask him to come see you".
Lelouch then left his sister and walked out of her room.
"What is Heero up too, could he have entered the Ghetto to check up on his, what did he call it a Gundam"?
Lelouch did not know that he was half right, Heero was at the ghetto and he was going to check up his Gundam.
But, he was also going to look for that strange green haired lady he saw.
Heero on the outside did not react strangely when he saw people with unnatural hair colours.
On the inside he though "Was their some sort of epidemic that caused these people to grow such strange coloured hair".
He was referring to the girls in the school he had seen with purple and a few other bizarre hair colours.
The vehicle he had caught had taken him to Shinjuku ghetto.
His entrance rolling out of the underneath of a truck had warranted the attention of a purple jacket wearing resident who called himself Tamaki.
"Hey man listen who are you, people don't just drop of the underneath of a truck".
This man had been annoying Heero for the last five minutes, to make matters worse he was the terrorist that had called them weirdos.
"Leave me alone". Heero said this for the second time.
"Hey I'm talking to you, you can't just try to up and go like that, I demand and explanation"!
He tried to make a grab at Heero, Heero keeping in mind that this was meant to be one of Lelouch's potential allies held back in his reaction.
Catching his arm tightly and holding so still no matter what attempt this Tamaki made to yank away Heero said.
"Follow me and I will kill you". At that moment Heero was staring right into Tamaki's eye, Tamaki's eyes registered that this was not a threat but a promise.
Turning his back Heero said "I'm not with Britannia, if that is what you're asking".
Walking on, he could hear that sound of a man running and running hard.
Knowing that the annoyance had left, he continued on his true route to Snow White.
"If she is still in the Ghetto I can find her easily otherwise this may be hard".
As he walked he past ruin buildings and broken monuments.
"Britannia really is worse than the Barton Foundation".
He knew that this was not entirely justified, the Gundams were meant to be units of a massacre after a colony was dropped on earth.
"The main difference is that the both the leader and their son were killed for their madness by their own follower".
He recalled Throwa's recount of what happened to the real Throwa Barton. He also recalled that his father was killed at the end of the Eve Wars.
He smiled as he recalled the faces of his fellow Gundam pilots and other comrades.
His eyes were scanning the sides around him, the last thing he wanted was some random hic happening upon him and Snow White.
Looking at the broken dome shape before him he knew he was here. He suddenly drew his gun from its holster and darted behind a nearby wall.
It was not hard for him to tell that someone had been here.
To be more precise someone was here and had not left. Slowing down his own heartbeat, Heero carefully traversed the space between him and where he had left Snow White.
"If they have found out about White, I will have to kill them".
Heero's eyes shone with the inner conviction.
The Mobile Suit Snow White was his joker, right now he did not wish for anyone besides Lelouch to know he had it.
He managed to enter the ruin in which he had hid his mobile suit.
There standing in front of its damaged body was a woman with light green hair and a white robe.
She turned her head and said "You came, I knew you would though, I expected him to come with you".
Heero had his gun raised and aimed at her chest, he did not say a word, this woman was with no doubt the same one in the Britannian files.
She was also the one who had taken a bullet for Lelouch.
"Can you tell me your name, I want to know who you are since you are not of this world"?
Heero knew a word trap when he heard one, she wanted to confirm that he was not from this world, she still did not know if it was true.
"I'll tell you mine if you give me yours"?
She looked at him, Heero did not know if she was judging him or trying to figure something out.
"You may call me C.C".
Now even a ten year old could tell that was not her real name.
"Heero Yuy, its a pleasure".
Heero could see that this C.C was rather amused with this line.
"Really, mind putting the gun away then".
To this Heero replied "No".
She gave him a look but, Heero did not care to translate what it meant.
"You should know I hold no fear of guns".
"That's your problem".
Heero said this, his gun still aimed at her, all that he knew about her right now was that she was annoying. "So you were the one who helped Lelouch that day"?
In the back of Heero's mind he thought "She knows about me helping Lelouch, just who is she".
Then, C.C as she had called herself walked closer to him.
In response Heero fire a shot at her feet "Come closer and I will kill you".
Heero saw her take in a deep breath and sigh "Children your age, did you parents ever teach you about respecting your elders"?
"The ones who raised me left out all useless skills".
Heero was referring to Doctor J and the other who were under him.
"Is that so, you seem rather well, alone and distant for a child".
To this Heero replied.
"I was never a child".
He could see that C.C had got the metaphor about childhood.
"Then I do pity you to some extent".
"Pity is not needed".
Heero in his current frame of mind did not agree with what he was saying.
This was the old Heero, during operation meteor Heero.
The first man who he could remember had said there was nothing wrong with living by your emotions.
"So tell me Heero Yuy, what do you think life is".
To this Heero replied what his fellow Gundam pilots would have.
"Life is something to be treasured and protected like peace although, in war all life is cheap".
This C.C smiled at him "So you can see both sides, more like you have seen both sides of the story"?
"I have" was all Heero replied.
"This Nightmare of yours is rather impressive, it is quite large though".
Heero knew she was probing him for information "Words like that won't work one me".
"So what is next, have you come to take me to Lelouch"?
Heero shook his head "You can get there on you own".
Heero saw her glancing at Snow White, she was impressed by such a suit.
"Than I can safely guess that this was the reason you returned here"?
Heero shook his head "I came for answer".
Heero was sure she would have noticed that all his replies were short and to the point not like her or Lelouch who flapped their lips at every little thing.
"You wish to know, why I am still alive or what it is that allows Lelouch to command others"?
"It is a start" Heero replied to her.
A good six hours later Lelouch had donned his Zero attire and was waiting in a rather luxurious vehicle for his soon to be allies to arrive.
One by one they came in threw the door to see him seat before them. Lelouch or rather Zero could see that they were in awe of such a vehicle, he allowed himself to smile at this.
"Ah I see so you have decided to reply to my invitation".
Kallen the one with the reddish hair and a student at Ashford Academy was the first to ask.
"Where is your friend, Zero One"?
Standing up with and elegant sweep Zero answered "Zero One is out doing researching into a secret of Britannia's that he found most interesting".
The one who seemed like this group of misfits leader Ohgi stepped forward.
"We resistance members have decided that we will work with you Zero, if you are that voice from Shinjuku, then with you we can free Japan".
With an elaborate thrust of his arm Zero extended his hand to shakes Ohgi's.
"Then I welcome you to my humble abode, from here we can plan out or operations against Britannia".
The one wearing the purple jacket was ogling walls and said "Zero where did you get this from"!
"I borrowed it from a rather cooperative noblemen, have no fear no one knows this location save for you".
The entire group was looking around in awe at the place, somehow Zero knew that he had chosen the right choice.
"So um, not that I am impatient or anything, I just wish to know, uh what is your next plan to strike against Britannia"?
Zero turned to Kallen who had been fumbling over her words like a school girl with a crush.
"Our next operation shall be to rescue Suzaku Kururugi from his trail".
Now all of them looked at him and wanted to ask why him, but Zero was a one step ahead of all of them.
"Why save him, he was the last Prime Minsters son, if he joins us he can be a beacon to which many would rally".
Now it was the one with glasses Yoshitaka Minami who asked "What if he does not join us"?
To this Lelouch had a reply, one which the SWZS what shown him.
"Then he will be made into the figure that all the true people of Japan loath, he we be seen as a traitor and a murderer".
Now the entire resistance group was taken aback by the this bold statement.
"I also took the care to have uniforms for you made".
The one who Zero was able to identify as Tamaki said.
"If you think I am going to wear anything that is half as weird as what you wear, forget it"!
Zero looked at him "Assure you, it is not even half as ridiculous as what you are currently wearing.
The others could not help but laugh at him as Tamaki looked down at his own purple jacket.
As if on cue strollers rolled out with black uniforms with a lines of sliver upon them. "Beside me you will fight as the Black Knights, we will break Britannia's hold over Japan".
Extending both hands out to the sides of himself he continued "Join me as fellow Knights of freedom and justice together we will do what we alone could not".
All of the former freedom fighters were picking out uniforms from the selection for themselves.
Zero could hear them commenting on how well it looked and how stylish it was.
Leaving his sight for a short period of time and then returning they all had donned the Black Knights attire.
Then opening Zero hit a switch behind him and a box opened up.
"These mask will protect your identities as I have done to mine".
Each one of them took a mask and placed it on their faces. "I will show you my plan to rescue Suzaku from Britannia".
All of them nodded not one of them had a word of objection.
"This is excellent, it all has gone according to plan, now I only need to save Suzaku, if he does not join me I have back up"!
Pls review no flaming took me a while to figure out this chapter laying the ground work for baddass Heero scene next chapter
What did you think of the way Heero handled Milly and Sayoko, should I have made him just ignore them?
Also any advice would be appreciated or thoughts on how things should roll
Note: Pls don't ask me for Frozen Teardrop I actually own a physical copy in Japanese (Not all just some)
JAGA03 signing out