Trio followed Une to the air ducts. She had proved she knew them well in the lab when they went over the blueprints in the lab. She admitted to using them often to escape when she wanted to be left alone. Meiran knew them just as well but Treize would have a bit of trouble fitting in them anymore. His bigger build left little room for movement.
She pushed back a wall panel and the two crawled out into a small room. Une put a finger to her lips and looked out past the shelf that hid them from the rest of the room.
She nodded satisfied and stepped out. "c'mon." she whispered.
They pushed open the door and peeked out into the hall way.
Satisfied Une led him quickly into another room. This was like the ultimate game of hide and seek she thought. But if you get caught now, they may kill you.
"So? Now what, o fearless leader?" she hissed.
Trio was silent and pulled out his laptop hooking it into the wall. "Now we destract."
Larson raised the glass to his lips just as the lights went out. "Oh, bloody hell...."
Hunter appeared in the doorway, his usual cowering self. "Ah, sir?"
"Let me guess. We have a minor glitch?"
Hunter flinched visably and nodded slowly. "Ah, yes, sir."
"And what is being done about this....'glitch'? Hmm?"
"The technichians are working on it, sir, but...."
The captain raised an eyebrow waiting for the 'but'. One thing about Hunter, he didn't stutter no matter what.
"But it appears this isn't a faulty wire, sir."
This got Larson's attention. "Are you saying someone *did* this, Hunter?"
Hunter nodded and swallowed visably.
Larson sat back, musing over this. None of his crew he doubted would, let alone could. The pilots? From their gundam? The two that had backed off.
"See to those two gundam that left the fight."
Hunter saluted and left to carry out the order.
He could most definatly use these pilots in his war.
Maxwell was the first to notice the few MS cautiously heading towards the Hell II and Sandrock II. "Damn! Meiran! Treize! STOP THOSE MS!!!" Maxwell was way to busy with the MS around him to do anything to help.
Unfortunatly so were Treize and Meiran.
The three watched helplessly as the MS dragged the two gundam into the Peacemillion II.
Maxwell wimpered softly. "Trio...."
Hunter reappeared much to early for Larsons taste. "Now what?"
"The gundam, sir. The two that retreated. The MS picked them up. They are....empty, sir."
Larson sat straight up. "Empty?!" That ment the pilots could very well be *on* the ship. All the gundam had been close enough to drop off a passenger or two. "They are probably on board. Find them and bring them to me...."
Trio and Une retreated to the air ducts after doing a little light show, amoung other things. They stopped periodically so Trio could hook up his laptop and mess with the main computer more.
Une found the whole thing rather exciting and thrilling. She smiled as she watched Trio crawl through the ducts.
"Where now?" she asked.
"Main controll room. I need to be closer to the main computer."
Une nodded there was a way to be in the room and not be seen. The only problem was getting there.
Une lead the way and they could see almost everything that went on in the room, and hear just as much. Oddly it seemed no one was present in the room. Trio hesitated then crawled carefully out. Une followed quietly and pointed Trio to the space behind the computer where he could hide. Trio nodded and sprinted out.
"Hold it right there, punk." Trio's eyes widened at the man they had failed to notice. The gun was leveled at his chest. Trio looked around for an escape, but all failed him and he closed his eyes as the man readied the gun. Trio took a deep breath and lunged.
The man growled and pulled the trigger. Trio winced for impact but it never came from a bullett. Instead Une slamed into him and let out a scream as the bullet peirced just shy of her shoulder.
Trio reacted on instinct and pulled the gun he had on the man. The man blinked obviously thrown off by the sight of the boy with the gun. "Drop it or I kill you." Trio growlled and pulled himself up.
Une groaned and fought for conciousness but the pain was overwhelming.
The man dropped his gun and stepped back a step. "Don't move." Trio warned him.
"Same to you." The voice was calm and cool.
And behind Trio. Trio realized then he'd made a mistake. Somehow he had ended up with his back to the door. "K'su."
The voice laughed and there was the audible sound of a gun setting up. "You are the pilot of one of the gundams we aquired, yes? I must say you were quite impressive. I could use someone like you."
Trio lowered the gun and turned around slowly glaring at the man. "Use me?" Trio hissed.
The man laughed again and shrugged without taking the gun from its aim at Trio's head. "Of course! A fighter such as yourself! You are definatly a warrior at heart! And what place is there for a warrior in times of peace, hmm?"
Trio lowered his head. He admitted it, he had actually enjoyed this battle, the fighting, the suspence. But up until now it hadn't seemed real.
"I could use someone like you. Together with your gundam we are unstoppable! Fight with me. Start this war."
"War...." Trio's eyes were hidden from the man by his shaggy bangs. A smirk spread across his lips and his eyes raised slightly. He looked the image of evil. "War killed my father!"
The fault the man made was not making Trio drop his weapon. Now Trio opened fire.
He would end this war now.
He would finish what his father had started.
Maxwell put his gundam in the bay and watched as the escape pods left in a buzz. Treize and Une weren't killing these people, just disabling them. Maxwell jumped out of his gundam and waited outdie the hanger. He didn't know the ship well enough to go on his own but he was antsy to find Trio and Une.
Meiran and Treize didn't take long. Already space police were finishing the job so they ran to find their parents.
They knew all the best places to lock some one in and it wasn't too hard to find the adults, but they never found Trio or Une.
Maxwell looked around worry writen on his face as Meiran and Treize were alternatly yelled at and hugged.
"What about Une?"
They all knew Une wasn't the type to come, but she wasn't the type to stay home either.
"She's with Trio..." Maxwell stared down the hall with a blank lost expression.
"Where's Trio, then?" Zechs and Noin looked worriedly at Maxwell.
"I...I don't know. They were on here."
They tore down the halls calling for Une and Trio, Noin was near tears.
Then Une staggered wide eyed from the control room holding her shoulder that was dripping blood. "Trio..." was all she managed before colapsing in tears to her parents.
Maxwell fought his own tears and pushed past them to the room. Trio was slumped against the wall dead men on the floor.
"Trio!" Maxwell dropped beside his friend. Trio was covered in blood, how much of it his? The only sign of life was the slight shaking of his shoulders and the soft sniff.
Trio raised his indigo eyes to Maxwell, tears streaked his cheeks and then he blacked out.
Trio sighed and looked out the window. It hurt a lot. He had a half dozen gun wounds, but none overly serious. Une had only gotten her shoulder injured. Now, they faced the wrath of angry parents and guardians.
He looked apologetically to Maxwell who just smiled, glad Trio wasn't as bad as they'd all thought.
The shuttler landed and they all stepped off. Maxwell was immediantly attacked by his parents who threatened to ground him if he ever even looked at another gundam.
Trio looked up to Trowa. "So? How much trouble am I in?"
"I'm not sure. Quatre took off after you guys left."
"Oh....thats not good then..."
They all turned at the sound of a car door closing and just stared. Quatre looked torn between killing Trio and being terribly proud of himself.
Trio, along with everyone else, just gawked at the other man with Quatre.
Trio's heart stopped. Everything in the world came crashing down around him and he never noticed. All he saw was *him*.
Duo Maxwell.
Trio blinked. "Your supposed to be dead," he choked out as Duo moved closer to his son.
"No. I'm suppossed to be taking care of you. I'm sorry, Trio." Duo pulled his son gently closer careful of the wounds. "I told Quatre to tell everyone I died because I was afraid I'd hurt you all."
Trio looked up at his father and smiled past the pain. "I missed you, Dad. More than anything..."
Duo sighed and looked apologetically at the others avoiding Relena's glare. "I really am sorry." He turned to Quatre. "I just-"
Trio shook his head and hugged his dad before passing out again.
Duo leaned back in the chair and watched Trio out in the yard. Heero smiled. "He really is a good kid. Even if he does take after you."
Duo snickered. "What's that suppossed to mean, Mr. Perfect Soldier?"
Heero laughed as Une took a running leap onto Trio's back. Trio winced visably, but said nothing about it.
Heero smiled putting a hand to Duo's shoulder. "I'm glad Une's hooking up with Trio."
"Why? Because then Zech's kid isn't dating Maxwell?"
"You got it."
"Oh really. Maybe we should finish our fight, Heero Yuy."
Heero laughed and shook his head at Zechs. "No thanks, Zechs. I'll pass. So what are you going to do now, Duo?"
Duo sighed watching Trio. "I dunno, but I'm sure we'll come up with something."
She pushed back a wall panel and the two crawled out into a small room. Une put a finger to her lips and looked out past the shelf that hid them from the rest of the room.
She nodded satisfied and stepped out. "c'mon." she whispered.
They pushed open the door and peeked out into the hall way.
Satisfied Une led him quickly into another room. This was like the ultimate game of hide and seek she thought. But if you get caught now, they may kill you.
"So? Now what, o fearless leader?" she hissed.
Trio was silent and pulled out his laptop hooking it into the wall. "Now we destract."
Larson raised the glass to his lips just as the lights went out. "Oh, bloody hell...."
Hunter appeared in the doorway, his usual cowering self. "Ah, sir?"
"Let me guess. We have a minor glitch?"
Hunter flinched visably and nodded slowly. "Ah, yes, sir."
"And what is being done about this....'glitch'? Hmm?"
"The technichians are working on it, sir, but...."
The captain raised an eyebrow waiting for the 'but'. One thing about Hunter, he didn't stutter no matter what.
"But it appears this isn't a faulty wire, sir."
This got Larson's attention. "Are you saying someone *did* this, Hunter?"
Hunter nodded and swallowed visably.
Larson sat back, musing over this. None of his crew he doubted would, let alone could. The pilots? From their gundam? The two that had backed off.
"See to those two gundam that left the fight."
Hunter saluted and left to carry out the order.
He could most definatly use these pilots in his war.
Maxwell was the first to notice the few MS cautiously heading towards the Hell II and Sandrock II. "Damn! Meiran! Treize! STOP THOSE MS!!!" Maxwell was way to busy with the MS around him to do anything to help.
Unfortunatly so were Treize and Meiran.
The three watched helplessly as the MS dragged the two gundam into the Peacemillion II.
Maxwell wimpered softly. "Trio...."
Hunter reappeared much to early for Larsons taste. "Now what?"
"The gundam, sir. The two that retreated. The MS picked them up. They are....empty, sir."
Larson sat straight up. "Empty?!" That ment the pilots could very well be *on* the ship. All the gundam had been close enough to drop off a passenger or two. "They are probably on board. Find them and bring them to me...."
Trio and Une retreated to the air ducts after doing a little light show, amoung other things. They stopped periodically so Trio could hook up his laptop and mess with the main computer more.
Une found the whole thing rather exciting and thrilling. She smiled as she watched Trio crawl through the ducts.
"Where now?" she asked.
"Main controll room. I need to be closer to the main computer."
Une nodded there was a way to be in the room and not be seen. The only problem was getting there.
Une lead the way and they could see almost everything that went on in the room, and hear just as much. Oddly it seemed no one was present in the room. Trio hesitated then crawled carefully out. Une followed quietly and pointed Trio to the space behind the computer where he could hide. Trio nodded and sprinted out.
"Hold it right there, punk." Trio's eyes widened at the man they had failed to notice. The gun was leveled at his chest. Trio looked around for an escape, but all failed him and he closed his eyes as the man readied the gun. Trio took a deep breath and lunged.
The man growled and pulled the trigger. Trio winced for impact but it never came from a bullett. Instead Une slamed into him and let out a scream as the bullet peirced just shy of her shoulder.
Trio reacted on instinct and pulled the gun he had on the man. The man blinked obviously thrown off by the sight of the boy with the gun. "Drop it or I kill you." Trio growlled and pulled himself up.
Une groaned and fought for conciousness but the pain was overwhelming.
The man dropped his gun and stepped back a step. "Don't move." Trio warned him.
"Same to you." The voice was calm and cool.
And behind Trio. Trio realized then he'd made a mistake. Somehow he had ended up with his back to the door. "K'su."
The voice laughed and there was the audible sound of a gun setting up. "You are the pilot of one of the gundams we aquired, yes? I must say you were quite impressive. I could use someone like you."
Trio lowered the gun and turned around slowly glaring at the man. "Use me?" Trio hissed.
The man laughed again and shrugged without taking the gun from its aim at Trio's head. "Of course! A fighter such as yourself! You are definatly a warrior at heart! And what place is there for a warrior in times of peace, hmm?"
Trio lowered his head. He admitted it, he had actually enjoyed this battle, the fighting, the suspence. But up until now it hadn't seemed real.
"I could use someone like you. Together with your gundam we are unstoppable! Fight with me. Start this war."
"War...." Trio's eyes were hidden from the man by his shaggy bangs. A smirk spread across his lips and his eyes raised slightly. He looked the image of evil. "War killed my father!"
The fault the man made was not making Trio drop his weapon. Now Trio opened fire.
He would end this war now.
He would finish what his father had started.
Maxwell put his gundam in the bay and watched as the escape pods left in a buzz. Treize and Une weren't killing these people, just disabling them. Maxwell jumped out of his gundam and waited outdie the hanger. He didn't know the ship well enough to go on his own but he was antsy to find Trio and Une.
Meiran and Treize didn't take long. Already space police were finishing the job so they ran to find their parents.
They knew all the best places to lock some one in and it wasn't too hard to find the adults, but they never found Trio or Une.
Maxwell looked around worry writen on his face as Meiran and Treize were alternatly yelled at and hugged.
"What about Une?"
They all knew Une wasn't the type to come, but she wasn't the type to stay home either.
"She's with Trio..." Maxwell stared down the hall with a blank lost expression.
"Where's Trio, then?" Zechs and Noin looked worriedly at Maxwell.
"I...I don't know. They were on here."
They tore down the halls calling for Une and Trio, Noin was near tears.
Then Une staggered wide eyed from the control room holding her shoulder that was dripping blood. "Trio..." was all she managed before colapsing in tears to her parents.
Maxwell fought his own tears and pushed past them to the room. Trio was slumped against the wall dead men on the floor.
"Trio!" Maxwell dropped beside his friend. Trio was covered in blood, how much of it his? The only sign of life was the slight shaking of his shoulders and the soft sniff.
Trio raised his indigo eyes to Maxwell, tears streaked his cheeks and then he blacked out.
Trio sighed and looked out the window. It hurt a lot. He had a half dozen gun wounds, but none overly serious. Une had only gotten her shoulder injured. Now, they faced the wrath of angry parents and guardians.
He looked apologetically to Maxwell who just smiled, glad Trio wasn't as bad as they'd all thought.
The shuttler landed and they all stepped off. Maxwell was immediantly attacked by his parents who threatened to ground him if he ever even looked at another gundam.
Trio looked up to Trowa. "So? How much trouble am I in?"
"I'm not sure. Quatre took off after you guys left."
"Oh....thats not good then..."
They all turned at the sound of a car door closing and just stared. Quatre looked torn between killing Trio and being terribly proud of himself.
Trio, along with everyone else, just gawked at the other man with Quatre.
Trio's heart stopped. Everything in the world came crashing down around him and he never noticed. All he saw was *him*.
Duo Maxwell.
Trio blinked. "Your supposed to be dead," he choked out as Duo moved closer to his son.
"No. I'm suppossed to be taking care of you. I'm sorry, Trio." Duo pulled his son gently closer careful of the wounds. "I told Quatre to tell everyone I died because I was afraid I'd hurt you all."
Trio looked up at his father and smiled past the pain. "I missed you, Dad. More than anything..."
Duo sighed and looked apologetically at the others avoiding Relena's glare. "I really am sorry." He turned to Quatre. "I just-"
Trio shook his head and hugged his dad before passing out again.
Duo leaned back in the chair and watched Trio out in the yard. Heero smiled. "He really is a good kid. Even if he does take after you."
Duo snickered. "What's that suppossed to mean, Mr. Perfect Soldier?"
Heero laughed as Une took a running leap onto Trio's back. Trio winced visably, but said nothing about it.
Heero smiled putting a hand to Duo's shoulder. "I'm glad Une's hooking up with Trio."
"Why? Because then Zech's kid isn't dating Maxwell?"
"You got it."
"Oh really. Maybe we should finish our fight, Heero Yuy."
Heero laughed and shook his head at Zechs. "No thanks, Zechs. I'll pass. So what are you going to do now, Duo?"
Duo sighed watching Trio. "I dunno, but I'm sure we'll come up with something."