Chapter 26:
"We're under fire!" called the male to the left of Colonel Caldwell.
"I want to see what is attacking us!" the Colonel yelled. When the screen finally showed them in the middle of the mobile suits Rodney paled. "Get the shields up now! Boys," he turned his attention to the screen with the boys waiting on it. "Get your suits ready to move, we are being fired at by a dozen or more giant suits."
They all grinned. "We'll keep the line open for ya! But we're turnin' off the video, easier ta hack," Duo said and it seemed all at once their video cut but not their audio. Caldwell listened to them.
"Zero-two," Heero said.
"Yep, fall out see what they are, jam em and kill em if their baddies," Duo said.
"If you need back up, call one of us," Quatre said.
"Yeah Kitty Kat," Duo said. His commutations got fuzzy for a moment. And then he appeared on Caldwell's screen. Rodeny watched them as John ran in and looked at the screen. He paused and looked at the others.
Duo glided through space easily enough and saw that they were space Leos and Aries that were attacking the ship. He pulled commutation with one. "Surrender at once! You are in a restricted space zone under Oz," the man said.
"That's all I needed to know buddy!" Duo said and took his scythe and sliced it down the middle. He danced around the others, hacking them into pieces as they tried to attack him. Their skill it seems had gone down some since they have been gone.
"It's a Gundam! The Gundams are back!" one yelled on all radio waves before he too was killed.
Duo sat in his cockpit and looked up at his screen at all the destruction that he had caused. He looked to the four mobile suits that were left, their guns on him as he stood there with the scythe down. Duo relaxed his muscles and his hold on his controls.
John and Rodeny watched them. "Is that really Duo?" Rodeny asked. Remembering how energetic and cheerful the boy was. They knew he was a pilot and had been through a few things with how he carried himself, but this. This was slaughter.
"Yes," Quatre answered Rodeny. "We are all soldiers we told you this. Our mission is to destroy all targets and to eliminate Oz."
"This is what we were doing before we got high-jacked to your world," Duo said to them.
"How come they aren't shooting at you now?" John asked.
"I jammed them, their systems won't work, and unless they have some back up air supplies in there, they will suffocate to death. I figured we could use the uniforms or the mobile suits," Duo said.
"The idiot can think," Wufei said.
"Duo where are we in space?" Quatre asked.
"We're in the L2 colony cluster, there is a colony a few hours away that we can dock at and get some knews," Duo said. He pulled up the map for the other Gundam pilots and then sent one to the Deadalus. Rodeny leaned over and looked at the star and colony map.
"I know some of these stars," he said and looked at it. He walked over to the star screen. Which was a clear glass computer screen with the stars on them and then he pulled up the map that Duo sent them and he over lapped them. "It's pretty much the same as our Earth's stars with a few minor differences," Rodney said watching the map for a long moment before turning towards the others.
"If you want to buy stuff here its credits, you can get some credits for most of these parts," Duo said to them as they started to haul in the suits and the scrap.
One of the pilots of the Leo's was smart enough to carry an oxygen tank and a space suit. He was alive when Heero opened the cockpit door. That didn't last long as a bullet to the head solved that problem. Duo stood on the open cockpit door and watched as the scrap was being looked over by Rodney and a team of researchers.
"This isn't the same metal as your Gundams," Rodney said.
"Nope, that's just plan old iron and steel," Duo said. "Resource satellites help make the stuff."
"Resource satellites are normally used to make and grow food and wood, but there are some out there that work on the production of metal," Quatre said.
"Duo you're needed in the control room," Caldwell said over the speakers. Duo climbed off Deathscythe and headed towards the control room. There he looked at the colony at which they would be docking.
"How do we dock?" one of the people asked.
"This is L2x38774 what is your business?" someone asked over the com. Duo grabbed the headset.
"Permission to dock in section seven alpha nine we have cargo for the sweepers," Duo said. It wasn't a lie; they had scrap parts for the sweepers to trade to.
"Sweeper code?" the man asked.
Duo bit his lip for a moment. "Sweeper code 775 dash A – R 228."
"Okay that will be three hundred credits to dock permission to deduct?"
"1492, permission grated," Duo finished and then a door started to open. He tossed the head set to the owner. "Go in there and follow the tunnel. Then wait they will close the doors and vent in pressure and air. When the light turns green they the ship will be rolled into a cargo bay. No one sweeps a sweeper ship," Duo said and turned to leave them.
"Duo," Caldwell called the boy stopped and looked at him. "Good work." Duo nodded his head and walked back over to the others and leaned against the foot of his gundam.
Quatre walked over to him and leaned with him. "Duo?"
"I'm okay Kitty Kat, just glad to be back home," Duo said and grinned at Quatre. The blond nodded his head but didn't move, silently giving support to Duo.
"Duo!" John called. "Going to give us a tour?" he asked.
"Nah, L2 isnt really a tourist attraction, it would be odd and have people asking questions if I gave ya'll a tour," Duo said and pushed away from his Gundam.
"Really? I have never been to any space colony," John started.
"L3 and L4 are better then this place," Duo explained. "If we get the chance to go to one of them, then yeah, a tour you'll get," Duo said and walked away from them quickly. Trowa watched him leave. After about thirty minutes Caldwell came on the com system and gave everyone the go ahead to leave the ship when ready.