AN: I'm back, with a new chapter this time! Bhwa ha ha ha! Going nuts and crazy. Should actually be studying. . .

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On with the fic!

Chapter 29

Wufei grabbed the handle firmly in his hand, putting his foot into the foot strap while at the same time giving the rope a firm tug. This activated the robot's miniature lift pulley mechanism and he went shooting up towards the robot's main body controls. Once there, he hopped onto the platform, kicking off the foot strap as he did, and watched for a brief moment as the foot strap and handle continued up to the ceiling of the robot's control room before disappearing into a hidden cove made specially for such storage purposes.

Behind him, he could hear the tired footsteps and whizzing of the bald scientist as he struggled to catch up with Wufei. A loud cough emerged from him once he was at the bottom of the robot's feet. Wufei took no heed of the man, his eyes were too busy scanning the robot's controls.

'This I can do, this I know what to do, this button is most likely for eject, I better not touch it. . .' his mind ticked off, ignoring the man who was now jumping up and down at the robot's feet, clamoring for attention. Once satisfied that his knowledge did indeed cover most of the robot's functioning mechanism, he sat down in the pilot's chair. From his view, he could see the bald scientist white pinched face and took pity on him.

Tilting his chin at the guy, he signaled the scientist that he was listening.

"Shenlong doesn't have any weapons . . ." the guy said uncertainly but without hesitation. Wufei let out a sigh. So this was what the man so wanted to tell him.

"Fine. I'm not fighting for justice," he answered nonchalantly, reaching behind for the restraints.

"Then why are you going?" the bald scientist asked, surprise in his voice.

Focusing all his attention on fasting the many restraints, Wufei answered frustratedly: "Because I'm not such a coward that I can stand by while my wife is killed!"

Once he got the restraints secured around him, Wufei jammed the closure button and waited impatiently as the door firmly closed shut, encasing him in the cockpit of the robot. Once that was finished, he started flipping the many switches and pressing the many buttons, bringing the robot to life. Normally, if he didn't had other pressing matters at hand, Wufei would have marveled at the complex and advanced technology now at his fingertips. But as was such the case, only one thought was going through his mind like a war chant that barbarian warriors usually did before battle.

'Get to Meiran, save her and then kill her! Get to Meiran, save her and then kill her!' the thought went on continuously in Wufei's mind while his body automatically flipped switches and pressed buttons left and right as if he had been in the robot's cockpit all his life.

Then as the robot's full activation was achieved, he searched for an exit in the laboratory. However, the scanners could not detect one to the left or right of him. Switching on the loudspeakers, he asked the scientist who was still standing at the feet of the robot, looking at him open-mouth: "Where's the exit?" His voice boomed across the laboratory.

The bald scientist immediately retreated until he was behind the table at the far end of the lab. Once he was safely behind the overturned table, he pointed upwards.

Using the robot's visual, Wufei found himself staring at a large hole in the ceiling of the laboratory. A VERY large hole with uneven sides.

"Your wife put that there," he heard the scientist say through his robot's sound receptors.

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Four guys and a girl gathered around a bed. On the bed, a boy lay there, peacefully sleeping as the world went on around him. Of course, if he WASN'T a gundam pilot, he could happily go on sleeping. But being one and Duo threatening to do something disastrous soon, the sleeping just had to stop.

That was why the girl was there.

Jess folded her arms and gave every single one of the AWAKE pilots a good glare.

Heero just looked away.

Quatre shifted uncomfortably in his seat and looked down at the sleeping boy.

Trowa kept expressionless like a rock, looking as if it was perfectly normal for her to glare.

While Duo gave her a wide cheeky grin, his front teeth shining white in the bright fluorescent sickbay light.

"Why am I here?" she asked finally, raising a delicate eyebrow at them. The pilots looked at each other silently. All of them were standing directly across the bed, facing her while keeping their distance.

Then, as if as one, all the other three pilots focused their attention on Quatre.

"Well . . . umm . . . we thought since you actually manage to get Duo out of his room and all . . . and umm . . . Wufei being . . . married . . ." Quatre's began his explanation but it soon trailed off. The girl had started directing a murderous glare at him. Immediately, the blond swallowed the rest of his words and resumed looking at the sleeping boy.

"I ask again. Why am I here?"

No one said anything for the next few minutes.

"Ah hack," Duo finally volunteered, rapidly getting bored of the situation. "Just pretend to be his wife."

Silence reigned again for the next few minutes once the words were out of his mouth; Jess looking dumbfound at Duo, while the rest of the boys continued to look elsewhere and everywhere, except at the girl. Then, the girl let loose her wrath.

"How the HELL am I SUPPOSE to do that?!!?!" she shouted, her countenance suddenly seeming to grow huge and intimidating. "I don't even KNOW the girl!!!!"

Duo tugged at his collar. He could practically see the flames blowing out from behind her.

"Heero?" he asked, looking pleadingly at the messy brown haired guy.

"Leave me out ." Heero replied stonily, retreating a few steps back.

Meanwhile, Quatre had jumped to his feet and was mumbling something about refreshments while making a straight beeline for the door. Trowa, on the other hand, followed leisurely behind, pausing to give Duo a glance before disappearing through the doorway.

'Cowards,' Duo thought and then wished he had done the same.

"Well?" the girl questioned, giving him the "dangerous" look. The kind that said: "I-pull-the-pin-on-you-if-your-answer's-not-good" kind of look.

Duo decided he was too near the girl. He took a step back. Then two. Closer to the door would be good for his health.

"Well. . . umm . . . Heero can find some records on her for you to read . . ." he said finally after some serious thinking. The door was now within a meter's reach from where he was standing.

* Click! * Heero was pointing his ole trusty gun at his head.

"I repeat. Leave me out." Heero answered, this time directing his answer at Jess, before removing his gun from Duo's head and keeping it in its holster underneath his shirt. Once that was accomplished, he stiffly marched out of the room.

Duo watched Heero leave the room, cursing him all kinds of languages in his mind. Then looking at the girl, whose expression right now resembled the time after she was rudely awaken by the vase of wilted lilies shattering in front of her face, Duo gulped.

'Better move closer to the door now . . .'

His thought was interrupted by a loud click coming from the door.

'Holy SHIT!!!' he mentally cursed as his mind registered that Heero had just taken one step ahead and locked the door behind him, trapping him in the room with the girl.

His attention shifted to the girl again and he watched in horror as the girl removed a long and evil looking pin from her hair, the end as sharp and pointy as a needle.

"Now talk," the girl commanded, an evil grin spreading across her face.

Author's Proclamation: Bhwa hahaha ah ha ha . . . Ouch. Stitch. Hope you enjoy this chapter. Poor Duo but Jess will be having it worse later on in the fic! :]