Authors Note: Here it is, the (not so) long awaited second (and last) chapter
of The Meeting. *Warning* if you don't like yaoi or shounen ai, sorry, but this has
a little 3x4. Don't worry, no 1x2 ( not that I'm against it, but it's 1xR in
this fic.) There is also a death (funfunfun) at the end and some major weirdness
too. When you're done reading, tell me if you want another sequel. I will be happy
to oblige, and I am currently working on more stories for you!
The Meeting
Chapter 2
Part 10
Revelations
Relena gasped. Why did he always have to do that? Before she could say
anything, he started talking again.
"I need to talk to you. Alone. In the kitchen." Relena noded mutely
and followed him there. The others waited for them to leave, and started laughing.
Duo made kissing noises. Suddenly, Heero popped his head out the kitchen door
and gave Duo his patented Heero Yuy Death Glare. Duo immediately retreated,
and the group started arguing over what to watch. The argument was settled
when Quatre, who wanted to see Sailor Moon, threatened to start singing
White Reflection, and Duo countered with threatening to sing Just Comminucation.
Quatre looked like he was going to burst out crying, and his face got red. He
decided to give in to Duo, because anything was better than Duo's singing.
Angered at this, Trowa silently drew his gun and shot Duo's video, The
History of Trunks. He then put the Sailor Moon DVD in and everyone cheered up
nicely and sang the theme song, led by Quatre.
In the kitchen, Relena showed Heero the note she had found near the apple
tree. She knew she could trust him, and she just needed to tell somebody. He
read it quickly, and nodded his head.
"What do you think?" Relena asked him.
"This only confirms my suspicions. Now is the strategically perfect time
to attack you. I have something to show you." Relena hated the way he talked, like
he was still on a mission. She felt like yelling, 'I'm your friend, damn it!'
She watched Heero pull something out of his pocket, a pink envelope. It
looked just like one of the stationary envelopes she used. Heero continued
talking. "I got this yesterday. In it was a letter, nicely telling me that the
meeting had been canceled, and that I shouldn't come over, to just call in a
few days. It was signed in your name."
"Oh my God! I never sent that! How did you know not to come, that it
was not from me?"
Heero tried to think of an alternate reason, but couldn't. He decide
to go with the truth. "Well, it didn't smell right."
"Excuse me?" Relena looked slightly insulted.
"The letter smelt like men's cologne. I know what your perfume smells
like, and this wasn't it." He tried not to blush.
Nodding her head, Relena decided to go check on the other people. Strange noises
were coming from the front room, and it sounded like...singing? Putting her
ear to the door, Relena heard it.
"Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight. Never running
from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon..." Relena decided that she
should break up the party. They needed to know the danger. Just when she was
going to open the door, Heero stopped her.
"You can't tell them. Whoever this is, they were close enough to you
to get to your stationary and send a letter from you. That's too close." He looked
at her, and Relena realized that he was really concerned. She decided he was
right, and that she had to find out who the next threat to them was. "By the way,"
said Heero, "this is yours." He pulled out her old teddy bear that had gone missing.
Around it's head were crude stitch marks, as if someone had sewn it back on, none
too skillfully. "I found it that night. It had been ruined, but..." he trailed off.
She took it from him. "You fixed it, didn't you?" He nodded. Relena didn't
know what to say. This was the nicest thing anyone had done for her. They were
interuppted by a crash in the living room. Going in, they found the T.V, lying
on the ground, its screen smashed in ...by a bowling ball. Furniture had been
rearranged, forming an aisle down the room, leading to a group of plastic cups
stood up in front of where the T.V. had been. Now the T.V. was lying on top
of some of the cups, and the other cups were scattered.
"Guess I got a full strike on that one!" Duo laughed. "Better get that
cleaned up before Re-" He then noticed she was in the doorway. "Gulp, it
was an accident, really." Relena turned into Angry Monster Relena.
"You..you...baka!"
'She can't hurt me' thought the confident Duo.
"Make him sit down NOW!" Relena ordered Heero.
"Uh oh!" yelled Duo. He raced for the door.
Part 11
The Hunt
Once Duo was seated on the couch, his hands tied behind his back,
Relena thought of a plan to find her enemy without making anyone suspicious.
"We're going to play a little game," she told them, "a detective game. This
will see how good you are at finding the enemy." Relena waited a minute for
them to stop bragging about how observant they were, and then continued.
"We'll team up in pairs. As you all know, no one has been here for three months.
Now, just in case a burglar or someone else has broken in, you all must look for
signs that someone has been here. Whichever team finds the most clues, wins."
She let them team up, and Heero grabbed her arm.
"You're with me. I don't want you going off with anyone who could harm you."
When everyone was ready, she assigned them to certain floors. After about an hour
of searching, everyone came back, exhausted. No one was able to find anything out
of the ordinary. Heero took Relena aside.
"That makes sense. Whoever it is wouldn't leave clues here again. The
base must be somewhere close by."
"The Mobile suit garage! That was where we kept our defense troops
before and during the war. Someone could hide out there." Relena smiled. She
had figured it out.
"I have to warn you," said Heero. "when I got here, I put Wing Zero in
there."
Relena's jaw dropped."Why?"
"I thought it might be needed. Come on, let's go."
The whole group went into the garage, and split up to search.
Part 12
The Funky Chicken
Duo and Hilde went to the back of the garage and searched among the empty
areas that mobile suits once occupied. Hilde shined her flashlight around the dark
corners. Walking a few feet, she caught a whiff of something foul.
"What's that smell?" she asked Duo.
"Wasn't me!" he replied with a smile.
"Not that! It smells like something rotten. She walked towards the smell.
She came upon a little room with a desk and workstation. Papers were scattered
about the room. Hilde looked closer at the papers, and switched on the rooms
overhead light. "Hey Duo, these are MS plans." She looked around. "Plans for
different parts."
"Hilde, check this out. I think I found your smell." A plate of half
eaten chicken sat on the desktop, probably days old. "Someone's been here
recently."
Hilde saw the chicken and laughed. "Hey Duo, it's the funky chicken!"
They were laughing histerically when a voice behind them asked,
"What's wrong with my chicken?" Turning around, Duo couldn't see anything.
Looking at Hilde, he noticed she looked funny. Her eyes looked different, and she
had these weird things attached to her temples.
Shrugging it off, he smiled at Hilde. "So what do we do now?"
"We must always obey the master." she answered in a dull monotone.
"Whoa. Time for us to get back with the others." He tried to steer her out
of the room.
"I don't think so." she replied calmly.
Part 13
Brainwash
Wufei sighed. One more minute of this stupid searching, and he was going
to scream. To him, it was pointless, and pointless things had no honor. He
was waiting for Sally to come out of the room she was searching. 'Onnas always
take too much time' he thought. Suddenly, he heard her behind him.
"Don't move, Wufei," she told him. Thinking it was some sort of weak joke,
he stood where he was. She yanked his ponytail as hard as she could.
"WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
As he screamed in pain, Sally slipped something onto his temples. He stopped strugghling,
and stood up, looking at her with pupil-less eyes.
Heero broke into the garage's security room, with Relena behind him.
Only a few of the camera's were working. As they watched the monitors, they saw
what happened to Duo, Hilde, Wufei, and Sally, but they couldn't see who had done
it or where they had gone. After that, all the cameras went out.
"Someone is controlling them. They wouldn't normally act that way."
said Heero.
"I know what you mean," said Relena, "but what do we do now?"
"We have to find and warn the others, before someone else gets to them.
Whatever you do, stay close." They left the security room.
Part 14
Who is Left?
Heero and Relena slipped through the hall quietly. Their best chance was
too surprise the others and warn them. All together, they could hunt out the
culprit. They halted suddenly when footsteps were heard down the hall. Hiding
around a corner, they watched as Noin, Zechs, Trieze, and Lady Une marched by, all
with temple attachments and eyes without pupils. They were walking toward the
front part of the garage. Heero and Relena followed them as closely as possible until
they turned a corner and they were gone. Following the hall, they found a
large room, with a staircase and a door on the far wall.
"You stay here," Heero instructed, cocking his gun. He walked up the stairs
and opened the door. When he went in, Relena walked up the stairs and stood
by the door. A loud, girly scream came out of the door. 'That couldn't be Heero,
could it?' thought Relena. She was about to open the door when he came back out
Not seeing her there, he tripped on her feet and tumbled down the stairs.
He lay for a second in a crumpled heap, then stood up, apparently unharmed.
"I'm so sorry, Heero! I didn't know-" She came closer to him, trying
to check if he had any injuries. He grabbed her and pulled her close. "Oh,"
she said, blushing. "Heero, I-" Then she noticed his eyes. No pupils. Underneath
his dark brown hair, at the temples, were two little attachments. Relena
screamed and pulled out of his grasp. Before he could stop her she raced out of
the room and began to look for help.
Part 15
Could It Be?
Trowa and Quatre were the farthest away from the rest of the group.
They had no idea what was going on, and were still looking for clues. Dorothy
was tagging along behind them, until she decided to go exploring another hall.
Quatre was glad that she was gone. He bent over and began searching through a
bunch of papers on the floor. Trowa turned around to talk to him when he noticed
a paper that looked different than all the rest. Picking it up, he noticed that
it was blank, except the heading, which said: The Plan.
"Quatre, is this yours?" Trowa asked Quatre about the note.
"Uh..no, actually it isn't." Quatre continued looking around the room.
Trowa thought he was acting really weird. He had seen the note fall, maybe
from Quatres pocket. And he had seperated from Trowa for a half hour. When he
got back, he wouldn't tell Trowa where he had been. Deciding that it probably
meant nothing, Trowa turned to look out the window, and then he noticed that
he had left his flashlight on the floor by the note. When he went to pick it up,
Trowa couldn't see Quatre anywhere. He looked around, and then heard a whisper
in the shadows.
"Pssst. Over here." Trowa followed the voice into the darkness.
Part 16
Trust
Relena was running blindly down the hall, having escaped a rampaging
Heero and a silent but menacing Trowa, when she ran smack into Quatre. She
noticed that he had not been brainwashed by the enemy.
"What are you doing here?" she asked him. There had to be a reason that
he was not affected.
"I was with Trowa, and now he's missing, have you seen him?" Quatre
looked nervous.
"They have Trowa! How did you escape?" She looked at him strangely and
started backing off. She remembered a glimpse of blonde hair. "You!"
"No! It's not me! I swear! Don't you trust me?" He grabbed her arms and
shook her to snap her out of it. They fell backwards, hitting a hidden switch.
A door cracked open a small way, and Relena peeked in, horrified at the sight.
They were all inside the room, putting together a mobile suit. It was almost
finished, and it looked as though each person controlled a certain part.
Everyone was in the cockpit, which was open, and they had seperate controls.
Trowa and Wufei were the arms, while Noin, Une, Sally, and Hilde worked the legs.
Zechs had the firepower and Treize the beam saber. In the middle sat Duo, and
at the head, controlling the operation, was Heero. They were almost ready.
Relena turned around, and saw Quatre. She screamed and ran towards the Wing
Zero, Quatre hot on her heels.
Part 17
Showdown
"Relena! I don't wanna hurt you! Get away from the Wing Zero! I'll use
it to stop their horrible machine!"
"No! It's you! You're the only one left! How could you do that to us!
To Trowa!"
"I didn't, listen to me!" Quatre heard a rumble. The others were on the move.
He used a circus jump that Trowa taught him, and got into the Wing Zero. 'Oh
no,' thought Relena. 'I know what that system does to him.' She dived out of the way
of Zeros path, waiting for Quatre to crush her. 'He's finally lost it, he'll kill
us all.' To her surprise, he turned and walked towards the other suit.
When Relena finally managed to follow Zero, she found it and the other suit
facing each other. Thinking he would use both suits to attack the world, she yelled,
"Quatre, no!" Then she saw the other suit put all together for the first time. It
was tall, and almost feminine looking. And it had...eyebrows? Above the suits
heads, a portion of the wall moved to reveal a glass window. From behind the
window, using a speaker, a loud voice came.
"That's where you've got it all wrong, Miss Relena. I believe that you
are quite mistaken. I am the culprit, not poor little Quatre." Relena saw two faces
behind the window, Pagan and Dorothy. Dorothy was speaking to her. "Surely
you didn't believe that he did all of this?"
"But why? Why would you side with Pagan and do this to me?" Relena
questioned her.
Dorothy laughed. "War is beautiful! And wonderful! And fun! And right!
And-" She was cut off by Pagan.
"Just shut up and kill them!"
"Right!" Dorothy said. "Prepare to meet...The Dorothynator! MWUHAHAHA
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!"
The Dorothynator lifted a foot to step on Relena, but it was stopped by Wing
Zero, Quatre still piloting.
"Dorothy, you'll have to get through me first. Heero would never forgive
me if I let her die. And it wouldn't be nice." Quatre got ready to fight.
"I don't want to hurt you, Quatre. When this is all over, we can be together."
"No, Dorothy, we can't. I don't love you and I am stopping you now."
Quatre pulled out Zeros beam saber and began to fight with the Dorothynator,
which was remote controlled by Dorothy, who sent impulses to the pilots brains.
Part 18
Rude Awakening
Thw two mobile suits began their fight, for the most part equally matched.
While they fought, Dorothy spoke to Quatre. "Why not run away with me, Quatre? Is
there someone else?" Quatre didn't answer. He fought harder with every second,
but it soon became clear that he was outnumbered the combined skill of the other
pilots was wearing him down. Dorothy knew this was happening. "Is there, Quatre?
Is there someone else?" She shouted angrily.
"I don't know," he replied, a little confused. Dorothy used this exact
moment hit him hardest. Zero stumbled and faltered. Relena could not beleive
what was happening, so she decided to do what she does best.
"HHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
DON'T DO IT!" This outburst startled Heero out of mind control. He ripped the
temple attachments off, and his eyes returned to normal. This shock ruined
Dorothy's system, and everyone snapped out of it. Confused and weak, the
Dorothynator collapsed.
Part 19
Dorothy's World Crumbles
'Oh man, I gotta get out of here,' thought Dorothy. Her plan was falling
apart, and Quatre had refused her offer. Pagan tried to block her way out, but
she shoved him roughly aside. "Step outta the way, old man." She walked out the
door, and was going down the hall, when someone stepped out in front of her.
"You're not going anywhere, Dorothy." The Zero system had messed with
Quatres brain a little. He was now bent on revenge. Heero had taken Wing Zero,
and Quatre had come here to stop Dorothy.
"Quatre, please, let me go. I'll never bother you again." She tried to get
away.
"That's right Dorothy, you won't bother us 'cause you'll be gone." He
pulled out a sword, ready to fight as they had before. With no options left,
she agreed and they began to fight. They were pretty evenly matched, but Quatre
wasn't afraid of death, and he fought ten times more feircely than before.
In the other garage area, Pagan decided to make his next move. He pressed
the detonation button, and alerted the pilots.
"I have placed bombs throughout this entire garage. They will go off
in 10 minutes. Any attempt to stop me or the bombs will result in immediate
explosion." With that, he raced outside.
Meanwhile, Quatre was starting to return to normal. He realized that he
didn't want to kill Dorothy, just stop her. He went to thrust his sword into hers,
and knock it out of her hand, when Pagan's announcement startled him. He turned
around and saw that he had pushed his sword deep into her heart. He quickly pulled
it out, but it was too late. She hit the floor, mortally wounded. He knelt by her side.
"I'm sorry," he whispered, "I didn't mean to..." He started to cry.
"I know," she said. "I did it for you. And because I'm a crazy bitch."
And then she died. A few minutes later, Trowa found him still laying there.
"Why didn't you go with her?" he asked Quatre.
"Because of you," sniffed Quatre. Trowa held him close while he cried.
"C'mon, we gotta get out of here. Alive. Together." Trowa smiled at Quatre.
He took his hand and led him out of the building, to where the other pilots were waiting.
Part 20
Close Encounter
Pagan needed a getaway ride, and fast. He couldn't find Dorothy
anywhere. The cars were too far away to get to before someone caught him. He
could see them gathering in the dark outside the garage. Sensing their danger,
the group moved as far away from the house as possible. Since it was out in the country,
they managed to find a nearby hill to hide behind. Once everyone was there, Heero
scanned the dark horizon for any sign of Pagan. He spotted him on a nearby hill,
pressing a button. Heero dived behind the hill and yelled, "Cover!"
The explosion gave Pagan a little time to make his escape. His best bet was to
run. He had just gotten to the top of his hill when Heero, still following,
yelled "Stop!" Pagan turned and held up his arms. Heeros eyes went wide. 'What
is he staring at?' thought Pagan. Then he zipped his fly. But that was not what
Heero was looking at. Pagan looked up. High above him in the sky was a bright
glowing object. It was a spaceship. The spaceship sent a beam down on Pagan, and
he laughed when he realized what was happening.
"I escape you again!" he cried as he was sucked onto the ship, and it
flew away into the night, leaving everyone standing there slack jawed.
Part 21
Into Town Again
They sat down on the grass, weary from the nights eevents. There was silence
for a few minutes, then Relena spoke up. "Town again?" The others nodded. She
went to stand up, but fell when she put her weight on a certain ankle. It was
the ankle she had injured in the first attack. Without a word, Heero picked her
up in his arms. He carried her to her limo, and put her in the front seat. He
got in the drivers seat and buckled up. He turned and looked at the others.
Smiling at each other, Trowa and Quatre locked hands and got in, followed by Duo
and Hilde, who sat on the floor. Noin, Zechs, Treize, and Une shuffled in, followed
by Wufei and Sally. Heero put the key in the ignition, then turned to look at
everyone. They were all cuddled up together, each with his own girlfriend or wife,
or...other. Heero smiled at looked at Relena. She had fallen asleep. He leaned
over and kissed her goodnight on the cheek. Her eyes fluttered open, and she
whispered his name, before falling back to sleep. He touched her lips with his
fingers and then started up the limo. They drove into town again, knowing
that it was finally over and that they could move on with their lives, and with
each other. Pagan was finally gone....for now.
-owari-
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So, whadduya think? Will Pagan ever be back? What goes on in town? If you want
a story about it, tell me in your review. That's all for now!
of The Meeting. *Warning* if you don't like yaoi or shounen ai, sorry, but this has
a little 3x4. Don't worry, no 1x2 ( not that I'm against it, but it's 1xR in
this fic.) There is also a death (funfunfun) at the end and some major weirdness
too. When you're done reading, tell me if you want another sequel. I will be happy
to oblige, and I am currently working on more stories for you!
The Meeting
Chapter 2
Part 10
Revelations
Relena gasped. Why did he always have to do that? Before she could say
anything, he started talking again.
"I need to talk to you. Alone. In the kitchen." Relena noded mutely
and followed him there. The others waited for them to leave, and started laughing.
Duo made kissing noises. Suddenly, Heero popped his head out the kitchen door
and gave Duo his patented Heero Yuy Death Glare. Duo immediately retreated,
and the group started arguing over what to watch. The argument was settled
when Quatre, who wanted to see Sailor Moon, threatened to start singing
White Reflection, and Duo countered with threatening to sing Just Comminucation.
Quatre looked like he was going to burst out crying, and his face got red. He
decided to give in to Duo, because anything was better than Duo's singing.
Angered at this, Trowa silently drew his gun and shot Duo's video, The
History of Trunks. He then put the Sailor Moon DVD in and everyone cheered up
nicely and sang the theme song, led by Quatre.
In the kitchen, Relena showed Heero the note she had found near the apple
tree. She knew she could trust him, and she just needed to tell somebody. He
read it quickly, and nodded his head.
"What do you think?" Relena asked him.
"This only confirms my suspicions. Now is the strategically perfect time
to attack you. I have something to show you." Relena hated the way he talked, like
he was still on a mission. She felt like yelling, 'I'm your friend, damn it!'
She watched Heero pull something out of his pocket, a pink envelope. It
looked just like one of the stationary envelopes she used. Heero continued
talking. "I got this yesterday. In it was a letter, nicely telling me that the
meeting had been canceled, and that I shouldn't come over, to just call in a
few days. It was signed in your name."
"Oh my God! I never sent that! How did you know not to come, that it
was not from me?"
Heero tried to think of an alternate reason, but couldn't. He decide
to go with the truth. "Well, it didn't smell right."
"Excuse me?" Relena looked slightly insulted.
"The letter smelt like men's cologne. I know what your perfume smells
like, and this wasn't it." He tried not to blush.
Nodding her head, Relena decided to go check on the other people. Strange noises
were coming from the front room, and it sounded like...singing? Putting her
ear to the door, Relena heard it.
"Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight. Never running
from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon..." Relena decided that she
should break up the party. They needed to know the danger. Just when she was
going to open the door, Heero stopped her.
"You can't tell them. Whoever this is, they were close enough to you
to get to your stationary and send a letter from you. That's too close." He looked
at her, and Relena realized that he was really concerned. She decided he was
right, and that she had to find out who the next threat to them was. "By the way,"
said Heero, "this is yours." He pulled out her old teddy bear that had gone missing.
Around it's head were crude stitch marks, as if someone had sewn it back on, none
too skillfully. "I found it that night. It had been ruined, but..." he trailed off.
She took it from him. "You fixed it, didn't you?" He nodded. Relena didn't
know what to say. This was the nicest thing anyone had done for her. They were
interuppted by a crash in the living room. Going in, they found the T.V, lying
on the ground, its screen smashed in ...by a bowling ball. Furniture had been
rearranged, forming an aisle down the room, leading to a group of plastic cups
stood up in front of where the T.V. had been. Now the T.V. was lying on top
of some of the cups, and the other cups were scattered.
"Guess I got a full strike on that one!" Duo laughed. "Better get that
cleaned up before Re-" He then noticed she was in the doorway. "Gulp, it
was an accident, really." Relena turned into Angry Monster Relena.
"You..you...baka!"
'She can't hurt me' thought the confident Duo.
"Make him sit down NOW!" Relena ordered Heero.
"Uh oh!" yelled Duo. He raced for the door.
Part 11
The Hunt
Once Duo was seated on the couch, his hands tied behind his back,
Relena thought of a plan to find her enemy without making anyone suspicious.
"We're going to play a little game," she told them, "a detective game. This
will see how good you are at finding the enemy." Relena waited a minute for
them to stop bragging about how observant they were, and then continued.
"We'll team up in pairs. As you all know, no one has been here for three months.
Now, just in case a burglar or someone else has broken in, you all must look for
signs that someone has been here. Whichever team finds the most clues, wins."
She let them team up, and Heero grabbed her arm.
"You're with me. I don't want you going off with anyone who could harm you."
When everyone was ready, she assigned them to certain floors. After about an hour
of searching, everyone came back, exhausted. No one was able to find anything out
of the ordinary. Heero took Relena aside.
"That makes sense. Whoever it is wouldn't leave clues here again. The
base must be somewhere close by."
"The Mobile suit garage! That was where we kept our defense troops
before and during the war. Someone could hide out there." Relena smiled. She
had figured it out.
"I have to warn you," said Heero. "when I got here, I put Wing Zero in
there."
Relena's jaw dropped."Why?"
"I thought it might be needed. Come on, let's go."
The whole group went into the garage, and split up to search.
Part 12
The Funky Chicken
Duo and Hilde went to the back of the garage and searched among the empty
areas that mobile suits once occupied. Hilde shined her flashlight around the dark
corners. Walking a few feet, she caught a whiff of something foul.
"What's that smell?" she asked Duo.
"Wasn't me!" he replied with a smile.
"Not that! It smells like something rotten. She walked towards the smell.
She came upon a little room with a desk and workstation. Papers were scattered
about the room. Hilde looked closer at the papers, and switched on the rooms
overhead light. "Hey Duo, these are MS plans." She looked around. "Plans for
different parts."
"Hilde, check this out. I think I found your smell." A plate of half
eaten chicken sat on the desktop, probably days old. "Someone's been here
recently."
Hilde saw the chicken and laughed. "Hey Duo, it's the funky chicken!"
They were laughing histerically when a voice behind them asked,
"What's wrong with my chicken?" Turning around, Duo couldn't see anything.
Looking at Hilde, he noticed she looked funny. Her eyes looked different, and she
had these weird things attached to her temples.
Shrugging it off, he smiled at Hilde. "So what do we do now?"
"We must always obey the master." she answered in a dull monotone.
"Whoa. Time for us to get back with the others." He tried to steer her out
of the room.
"I don't think so." she replied calmly.
Part 13
Brainwash
Wufei sighed. One more minute of this stupid searching, and he was going
to scream. To him, it was pointless, and pointless things had no honor. He
was waiting for Sally to come out of the room she was searching. 'Onnas always
take too much time' he thought. Suddenly, he heard her behind him.
"Don't move, Wufei," she told him. Thinking it was some sort of weak joke,
he stood where he was. She yanked his ponytail as hard as she could.
"WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
As he screamed in pain, Sally slipped something onto his temples. He stopped strugghling,
and stood up, looking at her with pupil-less eyes.
Heero broke into the garage's security room, with Relena behind him.
Only a few of the camera's were working. As they watched the monitors, they saw
what happened to Duo, Hilde, Wufei, and Sally, but they couldn't see who had done
it or where they had gone. After that, all the cameras went out.
"Someone is controlling them. They wouldn't normally act that way."
said Heero.
"I know what you mean," said Relena, "but what do we do now?"
"We have to find and warn the others, before someone else gets to them.
Whatever you do, stay close." They left the security room.
Part 14
Who is Left?
Heero and Relena slipped through the hall quietly. Their best chance was
too surprise the others and warn them. All together, they could hunt out the
culprit. They halted suddenly when footsteps were heard down the hall. Hiding
around a corner, they watched as Noin, Zechs, Trieze, and Lady Une marched by, all
with temple attachments and eyes without pupils. They were walking toward the
front part of the garage. Heero and Relena followed them as closely as possible until
they turned a corner and they were gone. Following the hall, they found a
large room, with a staircase and a door on the far wall.
"You stay here," Heero instructed, cocking his gun. He walked up the stairs
and opened the door. When he went in, Relena walked up the stairs and stood
by the door. A loud, girly scream came out of the door. 'That couldn't be Heero,
could it?' thought Relena. She was about to open the door when he came back out
Not seeing her there, he tripped on her feet and tumbled down the stairs.
He lay for a second in a crumpled heap, then stood up, apparently unharmed.
"I'm so sorry, Heero! I didn't know-" She came closer to him, trying
to check if he had any injuries. He grabbed her and pulled her close. "Oh,"
she said, blushing. "Heero, I-" Then she noticed his eyes. No pupils. Underneath
his dark brown hair, at the temples, were two little attachments. Relena
screamed and pulled out of his grasp. Before he could stop her she raced out of
the room and began to look for help.
Part 15
Could It Be?
Trowa and Quatre were the farthest away from the rest of the group.
They had no idea what was going on, and were still looking for clues. Dorothy
was tagging along behind them, until she decided to go exploring another hall.
Quatre was glad that she was gone. He bent over and began searching through a
bunch of papers on the floor. Trowa turned around to talk to him when he noticed
a paper that looked different than all the rest. Picking it up, he noticed that
it was blank, except the heading, which said: The Plan.
"Quatre, is this yours?" Trowa asked Quatre about the note.
"Uh..no, actually it isn't." Quatre continued looking around the room.
Trowa thought he was acting really weird. He had seen the note fall, maybe
from Quatres pocket. And he had seperated from Trowa for a half hour. When he
got back, he wouldn't tell Trowa where he had been. Deciding that it probably
meant nothing, Trowa turned to look out the window, and then he noticed that
he had left his flashlight on the floor by the note. When he went to pick it up,
Trowa couldn't see Quatre anywhere. He looked around, and then heard a whisper
in the shadows.
"Pssst. Over here." Trowa followed the voice into the darkness.
Part 16
Trust
Relena was running blindly down the hall, having escaped a rampaging
Heero and a silent but menacing Trowa, when she ran smack into Quatre. She
noticed that he had not been brainwashed by the enemy.
"What are you doing here?" she asked him. There had to be a reason that
he was not affected.
"I was with Trowa, and now he's missing, have you seen him?" Quatre
looked nervous.
"They have Trowa! How did you escape?" She looked at him strangely and
started backing off. She remembered a glimpse of blonde hair. "You!"
"No! It's not me! I swear! Don't you trust me?" He grabbed her arms and
shook her to snap her out of it. They fell backwards, hitting a hidden switch.
A door cracked open a small way, and Relena peeked in, horrified at the sight.
They were all inside the room, putting together a mobile suit. It was almost
finished, and it looked as though each person controlled a certain part.
Everyone was in the cockpit, which was open, and they had seperate controls.
Trowa and Wufei were the arms, while Noin, Une, Sally, and Hilde worked the legs.
Zechs had the firepower and Treize the beam saber. In the middle sat Duo, and
at the head, controlling the operation, was Heero. They were almost ready.
Relena turned around, and saw Quatre. She screamed and ran towards the Wing
Zero, Quatre hot on her heels.
Part 17
Showdown
"Relena! I don't wanna hurt you! Get away from the Wing Zero! I'll use
it to stop their horrible machine!"
"No! It's you! You're the only one left! How could you do that to us!
To Trowa!"
"I didn't, listen to me!" Quatre heard a rumble. The others were on the move.
He used a circus jump that Trowa taught him, and got into the Wing Zero. 'Oh
no,' thought Relena. 'I know what that system does to him.' She dived out of the way
of Zeros path, waiting for Quatre to crush her. 'He's finally lost it, he'll kill
us all.' To her surprise, he turned and walked towards the other suit.
When Relena finally managed to follow Zero, she found it and the other suit
facing each other. Thinking he would use both suits to attack the world, she yelled,
"Quatre, no!" Then she saw the other suit put all together for the first time. It
was tall, and almost feminine looking. And it had...eyebrows? Above the suits
heads, a portion of the wall moved to reveal a glass window. From behind the
window, using a speaker, a loud voice came.
"That's where you've got it all wrong, Miss Relena. I believe that you
are quite mistaken. I am the culprit, not poor little Quatre." Relena saw two faces
behind the window, Pagan and Dorothy. Dorothy was speaking to her. "Surely
you didn't believe that he did all of this?"
"But why? Why would you side with Pagan and do this to me?" Relena
questioned her.
Dorothy laughed. "War is beautiful! And wonderful! And fun! And right!
And-" She was cut off by Pagan.
"Just shut up and kill them!"
"Right!" Dorothy said. "Prepare to meet...The Dorothynator! MWUHAHAHA
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!"
The Dorothynator lifted a foot to step on Relena, but it was stopped by Wing
Zero, Quatre still piloting.
"Dorothy, you'll have to get through me first. Heero would never forgive
me if I let her die. And it wouldn't be nice." Quatre got ready to fight.
"I don't want to hurt you, Quatre. When this is all over, we can be together."
"No, Dorothy, we can't. I don't love you and I am stopping you now."
Quatre pulled out Zeros beam saber and began to fight with the Dorothynator,
which was remote controlled by Dorothy, who sent impulses to the pilots brains.
Part 18
Rude Awakening
Thw two mobile suits began their fight, for the most part equally matched.
While they fought, Dorothy spoke to Quatre. "Why not run away with me, Quatre? Is
there someone else?" Quatre didn't answer. He fought harder with every second,
but it soon became clear that he was outnumbered the combined skill of the other
pilots was wearing him down. Dorothy knew this was happening. "Is there, Quatre?
Is there someone else?" She shouted angrily.
"I don't know," he replied, a little confused. Dorothy used this exact
moment hit him hardest. Zero stumbled and faltered. Relena could not beleive
what was happening, so she decided to do what she does best.
"HHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
DON'T DO IT!" This outburst startled Heero out of mind control. He ripped the
temple attachments off, and his eyes returned to normal. This shock ruined
Dorothy's system, and everyone snapped out of it. Confused and weak, the
Dorothynator collapsed.
Part 19
Dorothy's World Crumbles
'Oh man, I gotta get out of here,' thought Dorothy. Her plan was falling
apart, and Quatre had refused her offer. Pagan tried to block her way out, but
she shoved him roughly aside. "Step outta the way, old man." She walked out the
door, and was going down the hall, when someone stepped out in front of her.
"You're not going anywhere, Dorothy." The Zero system had messed with
Quatres brain a little. He was now bent on revenge. Heero had taken Wing Zero,
and Quatre had come here to stop Dorothy.
"Quatre, please, let me go. I'll never bother you again." She tried to get
away.
"That's right Dorothy, you won't bother us 'cause you'll be gone." He
pulled out a sword, ready to fight as they had before. With no options left,
she agreed and they began to fight. They were pretty evenly matched, but Quatre
wasn't afraid of death, and he fought ten times more feircely than before.
In the other garage area, Pagan decided to make his next move. He pressed
the detonation button, and alerted the pilots.
"I have placed bombs throughout this entire garage. They will go off
in 10 minutes. Any attempt to stop me or the bombs will result in immediate
explosion." With that, he raced outside.
Meanwhile, Quatre was starting to return to normal. He realized that he
didn't want to kill Dorothy, just stop her. He went to thrust his sword into hers,
and knock it out of her hand, when Pagan's announcement startled him. He turned
around and saw that he had pushed his sword deep into her heart. He quickly pulled
it out, but it was too late. She hit the floor, mortally wounded. He knelt by her side.
"I'm sorry," he whispered, "I didn't mean to..." He started to cry.
"I know," she said. "I did it for you. And because I'm a crazy bitch."
And then she died. A few minutes later, Trowa found him still laying there.
"Why didn't you go with her?" he asked Quatre.
"Because of you," sniffed Quatre. Trowa held him close while he cried.
"C'mon, we gotta get out of here. Alive. Together." Trowa smiled at Quatre.
He took his hand and led him out of the building, to where the other pilots were waiting.
Part 20
Close Encounter
Pagan needed a getaway ride, and fast. He couldn't find Dorothy
anywhere. The cars were too far away to get to before someone caught him. He
could see them gathering in the dark outside the garage. Sensing their danger,
the group moved as far away from the house as possible. Since it was out in the country,
they managed to find a nearby hill to hide behind. Once everyone was there, Heero
scanned the dark horizon for any sign of Pagan. He spotted him on a nearby hill,
pressing a button. Heero dived behind the hill and yelled, "Cover!"
The explosion gave Pagan a little time to make his escape. His best bet was to
run. He had just gotten to the top of his hill when Heero, still following,
yelled "Stop!" Pagan turned and held up his arms. Heeros eyes went wide. 'What
is he staring at?' thought Pagan. Then he zipped his fly. But that was not what
Heero was looking at. Pagan looked up. High above him in the sky was a bright
glowing object. It was a spaceship. The spaceship sent a beam down on Pagan, and
he laughed when he realized what was happening.
"I escape you again!" he cried as he was sucked onto the ship, and it
flew away into the night, leaving everyone standing there slack jawed.
Part 21
Into Town Again
They sat down on the grass, weary from the nights eevents. There was silence
for a few minutes, then Relena spoke up. "Town again?" The others nodded. She
went to stand up, but fell when she put her weight on a certain ankle. It was
the ankle she had injured in the first attack. Without a word, Heero picked her
up in his arms. He carried her to her limo, and put her in the front seat. He
got in the drivers seat and buckled up. He turned and looked at the others.
Smiling at each other, Trowa and Quatre locked hands and got in, followed by Duo
and Hilde, who sat on the floor. Noin, Zechs, Treize, and Une shuffled in, followed
by Wufei and Sally. Heero put the key in the ignition, then turned to look at
everyone. They were all cuddled up together, each with his own girlfriend or wife,
or...other. Heero smiled at looked at Relena. She had fallen asleep. He leaned
over and kissed her goodnight on the cheek. Her eyes fluttered open, and she
whispered his name, before falling back to sleep. He touched her lips with his
fingers and then started up the limo. They drove into town again, knowing
that it was finally over and that they could move on with their lives, and with
each other. Pagan was finally gone....for now.
-owari-
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