Chapter 3 - Six Gundams Confirmed

Two days later Duo and I were at the bottom of the Alliance hospital in which they had placed Heero. Duo was on the phone with the person who was giving us shelter. "Yeah that'll do," he said. "Also both the pull carts are broken, so I'd like you to have our lunch ready at the back of the wheat field if you would. Thanks. We'll help you thresh the wheat later." He hung up and stepped put of the phone booth.

"Shall we go visit that patient?" I asked.

Duo nodded.

It took a while to find the room they were observing Heero from but when we did, we knocked the people in the room out and I connected with the screen that was in Heero's room. When his face appeared on the screen, Duo put one finger to his lips before starting to talk. "I see you've got no choice but to lie there," he said. "I'm sure a talented guy with your skills would be able to read my lips. Well can ya?" Heero turned his face away from the screen and closed his eyes. "Your acting is just amazing. You've regained consciousness without increasing your pulse or your brainwaves. I've got a few questions I'd like to ask you. If you're feeling up to it I thought I'd help you break out of here."

I had looked at the plans for the building before we entered, so it was easy to find the wall behind which Heero was lying. Duo placed the explosives on the wall and shielded me from the blast. As the dust settled, he let me go. Looking into the room, I saw that Heero was looking at us.

Time to liven things up buddy," Duo said.

We went to the side of where Heero was lying and knelt. "Damn," I said. " how do you get these things off?"

"Hand me a knife," I head Heero say from above us. "I'll cut them down the middle."

Both Duo and I looked up and saw a bloody hand reaching towards us. I almost gagged. Yes I was a Gundam pilot and had killed people but I never saw the people. And the last time I did see dead bodies I threw up violently before passing out, then again they had been people I had grown to know.

Duo made a slight noise of disgust. "What did you do to your hand?" He asked. "Damn, you got some guts." He gave Heero his knife, who us edit to cut the restraints.

We got out of the room and ran towards an exit of some sort. "This way," I yelled running towards a window, which Duo promptly threw a bomb at. The three of us fell to the ground while running to avoid being hurt by the explosion. After the window was blown away, we ran and jumped out of it.

"Geronimo," Duo and I yelled in synch. The both of us flipped in the air,he put his arm around my waist and used the thermal energy copter to slow down our decent.

"Hey are you crazy?" I yelled to Heero as he was still falling head first for the ground and he still hadn't released his parachute. "Hurry up and release your parachute."

He either didn't hear what I was saying or he chose to ignore me.

"Move it," Duo yelled. "Are you trying to kill yourself or what?" Heero still kept falling.

I turned my head into Duo's chest. "Damn, I'm gonna have to add this to my nightmare list."

"Agreed."

I heard an indistinct yell from above.

"It's way to late now," Duo yelled.

I looked down to see Heero let go of his parachute and roll down the cliff and beach.

"Oh God," I said before turning into Duo again.

Duo and I landed on the beach near Heero ad Duo let go of the copter. He pulled his hat off and put it on my head. "Now I understand that you wanted to take you own life," Duo stressed out. "But maybe, just maybe, you should think of another way of committing suicide buddy."

We walked to Heero and grabbed an arm each, putting them around our shoulders.

"We're not asking you to trust me or anything," I said. "But right now, we're the only friends you've got."

Later that night the three of us were back at the marina where our Gundams were at the bottom of the ocean. Deathscythe and Archangel were already lying on the deck and Duo was pulling the third one out of the water.

"There," Duo said from the cranes control seat. "There, I've pulled yours up too." He looked to Heero. "You could at least show a little gratitude. Ha?" I looked the way he was looking and saw Heero lying on the ground, leg up against the railing. "What's he doing?"

Heero popped his leg back into place. Duo cringed and groaned. I pushed my head into his back, as I was standing behind him making sure he didn't do something wrong.

"I can't take much more of this," Duo groaned. "He just goes and puts a broken bone back into place."

"Please don't," I begged Duo. "That's just totally grossing me out thinking about it."

I looked up from Duo's back and saw that Heero was staring at his Gundam in the water.