Author's Note: For those of you who did not get the reference in the last chapter, I was referring to Both Sides of the Tracks, specifically the part with the "insults": "Short Stuff/Tree Trunk." I Have to say I'm a bit disappointed as only one person got it and let me know, that being Archsage Soren. Now, there's another reference to one of my previous fics in this chapter and it's not going to be as easy to spot as the last one. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing.

Warning: language, graphic violence (should I raise the rating?), death, you name it, this chapter probably has it

Fun Times as Juggernauts

If you were to ask Solo what he would have thought an escape attempt would have been like, he would have expected it to be planned out, like something from a spy movie or one of those prison escape TV shows he had once seen when he still lived out on the streets. Sadly, what he was doing now was anything but.

It was spontaneous, not thought out, and chaotic. Well, maybe not chaotic but it was still pretty nerve wracking.

Apparently, the assholes in charge had gotten lazy and didn't expect for any of them to try such a thing as they were doing. So as soon as he took his first step through the threshold of his cell, Solo was stunned not to hear any alarms going off. What he did hear instead was the sound of bare feet padding on the cold floor, moving away from their cell and towards the commons area.

It seemed like Duo wasn't going to wait up for him and this fact fully impacted the blond the moment he saw the end of Duo's braid disappear around a corner. Like hell he was being left behind!

Jumping into action, he chased after his partner in crime, catching up with him in no time. Much to his annoyance, Duo was shushing him the moment he did catch up, saying that he was going to get them caught. He chose not to argue, at least not right now. First thing was first and that was to get the hell out of this place as soon as possible.

They had only reached the commons area where the alarm finally began to blare, red lights engulfing everything in their tint.

"Here they come," Duo commented dryly.

"I think I could figure that one out by myself," Solo grumbled back but raised his fists up, ready to take on whatever was going to be thrown at them.

They didn't have to wait long.

A hidden entrance in one of the walls opened, surprising both the boys as the security forces poured in. Each of the uniformed men held what looked like to be sawed off shotguns but were just oversized tazer guns. Unfortunately, Solo had seen them used once and they were quite effective. They were screwed.

"What's your power again?" Duo questioned quickly.

"Invulnerability," Solo answered back just as quickly.

"I got an idea, get in front of me!" Duo ordered.

Taking his eyes off the guards to glare at the braided one, Solo was about to snap out a retort only to be interrupted as Duo pulled him in front of him. Great, now he was a human shield. As if this day couldn't get any better.

He could hear the tazers being fired and could barely feel them against his back. However, the fact that he wasn't being electrocuted surprised the blond enough to peek over his shoulder. What he saw was the small projectiles being shot at them were hitting something and going through it but cracking all over and shattering against his hard back, not getting any grip on him.

"Shield!" he heard Duo shout gleefully in his ear. "I'm aging those things before they can hit!"

"Well that's just swell!" Solo retorted. "But how's that gonna help us out if we get surrounded?"

Smirking, Duo replied, "Watch."

The barrier of time that was the only thing protecting the two boys suddenly shot out and impacted all guards in front of them, the men finding themselves flying backwards as they were hit with nothing but solid time.

"Go have some fun with them," Duo winked at him.

Looking over at the recovering men, it took just about a second for his mind to make a connection and a wicked grin split his face. Have fun, eh? He could do that…

It had been a while since he had called on these aspects of his forced-upon-him abilities and the last time had involved a fight with one of the other boys. Since he and Duo began to hang around each other, most if not all physical fights he participated in had stopped altogether. Now that he was about to call upon these abilities, though, he couldn't have chosen a better target than the fools that happened to be in his way towards freedom.

Leg muscles flexing, he shot off like a rocket, covering the space between him and the guards in less than a second. He threw his fists in front on him, just as he was about to encounter the unawares guards. Each fist impacted an unfortunate soul and he could feel the bones in the men's bodies give way. Skidding on his bare feet, he let the two men he had punch literally fly away from him, their frail bodies hitting up against the commons area wall harshly. He twisted his waist and grabbed hold of the nearest leg of a guard and began to use him as a club, slamming him against his own comrades and sending them fly away.

Blood splattered against him but he took no heed of it as his amber eyes were glowing brightly with bloodlust. After clubbing two more men with his human club, he tossed the broken body away and bounded over towards the secret entrance where some guards were trying to escape, attempting to shut the door behind them. Catching the much larger and much heavier door just as it was about to close, Solo braced his legs and pulled the door back, tearing it off from the wall that it had been attached to with his impressive strength.

Shifting the torn piece of metal so that it was now parallel with the floor, he used the former door as a battle ram, those unlucky enough to be in the way…well, lets just say they'd seen better days. Despite going through the initial resistance, which consisted of only a few human bodies, Solo continued his charge down the previously unknown hallway and up the flight of stairs that it contained as the bloodlust that had taken over him urged him to do more. Whether this was a good thing or a bad thing, it didn't really matter as some more unfortunate guards found themselves impaled by the crumpling metal door and seconds later trampled by the blond juggernaut that Solo had become.

From behind, Duo trailed after him, uncaring that he was treading through growing pools of blood. With a careless smile on his face, he surrounded himself with an aura of death, that is to say sped up time; all those who were still alive felt their last moments sucked out of them, their bodies unable to withstand the phenomenon and causing them to explode into dust. Dust settled on the floor, the passage nothing but a rusting tunnel.

The screams and cries of the unsuspecting scientists were like music to the braided one's ears as he finished climbing the stairs and exiting the passageway, dutifully taking in the scene of carnage he found. Bodies littered the floor, both guards and scientists along with what seemed to be secretaries and the like. He spied the remains of the hidden door that Solo had appropriated earlier, the twisted piece of metal resting against a wall. Turning his head, he didn't have to look far to see where Solo was, finishing off two helpless victims by bashing their heads together hard enough that…well…brains were involved with the mess that resulted.

Sticking a pointer finger and thumb in his mouth, Duo whistled shrilly, causing Solo to jerk his attention to him.

"I thought we were trying to escape, remember?" Duo said dryly, crossing his arms over his chest in mock-impatience.

Blinking his amber eyes, Solo looked back to the two corpses he still held, his mind finally grasping onto what Duo had said. "Oh, right."

Huffing, Duo started towards a random hallway. Just as he was about to leave the room they were in, he waved a hand from his crossed arms, sending a flood of time down the corridor and freezing everything down it into one single second. Without further mind to the massacre behind him, Duo set out down the hall, Solo following him a minute later leaving footprints stained in blood behind. The blond's ire sparked as he noticed several people he passed frozen still. His bloody knuckles, none of the blood his, twitched, wanting to find themselves slamming into some more human bodies.

"Well what do we have here?" Duo mused aloud, stopping all of a sudden. His head was turned, facing what looked to be an elevator, the doors to the hanging chamber shut. Glancing back at the taller blond behind him, he asked, "Could you?"

Catching the gist of the request, Solo lumbered to the elevator, sliding his fingers into the crack of the doors and prying them open easily with his raw strength.

"Ah, nothing like the sterile smell of one of these things," Duo commented, stepping around the blond and into the elevator. "Going up?" he jested, eyeing his blood soaked comrade with humor in his crimson eyes.

"Ha, ha, ha," Solo muttered, getting in nonetheless.

One minute later, they were still where they were, the elevator's doors not even shut or even raising up.

"Goddamn it," Duo swore. "Now what?"

Shaking his head since he still had some knowledge about the thing they were in, Solo punched the roof hatch off the contraption and climbed up and onto the top of the elevator.

"A little help here?" Duo called up, glaring up at the hatchless exit. "Not all of us are homicidal monkeys, ya know? And last that I recall, I ain't like that ass Copy Chris."

Solo's hand and arm snaked back in, the braided one latching on and finding the air around him rushing as he was pulled up through the hatch. Blinking in confusion as his mind sought to make sense of where he was, Solo tugged at the cables that held the elevator, making sure not to use too much strength. Didn't want to get killed now that they had gotten this far.

Suddenly, the elevator shook and began to rise. Solo hastily let go of the cables, not wanting to burn his hands from the thick moving wires.

"What the hell is…?" Duo exclaimed.

Solo did not answer immediately, instead looking straight up. The darkness of the shaft above them was retreating and it wasn't long before he could see the top of the shaft. "They're gonna try and squish us," he said calmly.

"Really, ya think?!" Duo said sarcastically, now looking up as well.

"Like HELL they are!" Solo roared and shot his hands up above his head.

"Of all the people to choose, he had to pick someone crazy as you!" Duo cried out as it looked as if they were living the last minutes of their lives. It did not occur to Duo to try and go back into the elevator since that open hatch was still there.

The impact of Solo's hands slamming into the roof of the shaft was violent and Duo found himself almost falling off. However, much to his amazement, Duo saw that Solo was still as ramrod straight as he had been a minute ago. True, the blond's beefy arms were trembling with strain as the mechanism operating the elevator was also still trying to do its function, that being to pull the elevator up.

"Hey!" Solo snapped, the strain from resisting the power of a machine audible in his voice. "Can ya do somethin' other than sit there?! Break this thing off!"

His eyes wide, Duo looked around frantically, trying to figure out what the blond meant.

"Break the lift off!" Solo roared.

Looking to where the cables were attached to the elevator beneath them, Duo placed his hand there and began to work his magic. In no time at all, there was rust and an ominous sound of something breaking and snapping.

"Hold on!" Solo bellowed just as the elevator broke free from the cables and began to plummet down the shaft. Duo threw his arms around the blond just as said blond's legs lowered then pushed up, Solo jumping upwards with as much force as he could under the circumstances.

A bone jarring stop caused Duo's teeth to rattle but he still managed to retain his hold on Solo's waist, his feet dangling over a dark pit where he could literally hear the sound of the metal box they had been standing on only a moment before fall. Cracking open an eye, he found that Solo was balancing on his toes on a very thin ledge, a ledge just in front of a set of doors identical to the ones Solo had pried open earlier. Just as before, Solo broke these doors open and practically fell forwards into the outside world. Because his hold on the blond had caused him to slip down to his knees, Duo had to pull himself the rest of the way out of the shaft since he hadn't gone far.

This guy sure had a way of showing gratitude, didn't he?

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They had done it…they had really done it! They were outside, out of that damn place at long last!

Solo could feel the cold air of the night against his skin, a feeling that sent a shiver down his spine. His dream…it had finally come true!

Then he took a look around and nearly groaned to himself out loud. Oh, this was great, just perfect. Damn it, he hadn't known that they were in the middle of a fucking desert! They were in the middle of fucking nowhere!

"So this…is the outside world, huh?" Duo said aloud, wonder in his voice. "It looks like a dump," he added lamely.

"That's because we're in a desert, moron!" Solo snapped. As if things couldn't have gotten any worse!

Duo yawned…loudly. "Well, I'm spent!" he said cheerfully. "I think I'm gonna get some rest. Have fun now!"

"Oh hell no!" Solo swore as he watched in near horror as Duo's eyes faded from their unusual crimson to their ordinary violet.

Kid was back in control.

"Solo?" the braided boy asked, his eyes blinking sleepily. "What's goin' on?"

Solo heaved a large sigh. Well, there was nothing else he could do right now besides get them the hell away from here as fast as he possibly could. He pushed himself up off the concrete ground, yet still crouching as he motioned for Kid, no, Duo to come closer.

"Get on my back," he instructed to the wide-eyed boy. "Make sure you hold on tight."

"What are ya talkin' 'bout, Solo? Where are we?" the braided boy questioned, uncertainty clouding his sleep-ridden eyes.

"We're getting out of here," he grinned at the boy, hoping that that was comforting.

"Okay…" Duo said unsurely, and climbed up onto Solo's broad back, wrapping his arms around Solo's thick neck.

"Ready?" he asked, his legs tensing.

The braided boy nodded his head, the blond's hair tickling his cheek.

His legs pushing downwards, the blond rocketed straight ahead into the open desert.

He just knew this was going to be a long night…