Author's notes and disclaimers: Okies, don't kill me for this. But I want to keep my readers in suspense. Thank you all that reviewed my prologue thingie! *Nodnod* You kept me writin'. ^_^ Ano... the suspense thing. I'm going to write previous to the death of our Shinigami by the hands of the Perfect Soldier. So I dunno if it's really suspenseful or not. Erghm... Enjoy? *Cackles*
....oh yeah, thankies Elly, for the images of (alive) dancing Duos!
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~* Betrayal
Chapter Two: Beginnings
Of course Duo Maxwell always took his missons seriously. As the self-proclaimed God of Death, it was his duty to protect the colonies, defending them with his every action. It was his job to make sure the smiles were returned to the citizens of the colonies' faces.
But one does become cocky.
He thought that the remaining enemy suits were gone. Dead. Buh-bye. He thought. And this is where it begins.
"Shinigami strikes again," Duo smirked after glancing over the silent green radar screen. Nothing, nada, zip. "OZ pigs." Chuckling, the braided boy flipped the radar and battle systems off with an elegant flick of the wrist. Nothing to it.
"Hey Quatre, Heero? Do you read? Trowa? Wufei? Whatta 'bout you guys?" he spoke lightly. "Mission accomplished, as Heero would say." Duo almost swore he heard crickets chirping the the background. "....guys?"
The youth heaved a heavy sigh, accepting the fact that the others were probably still engaged in battle and too busy to talk to him.
"Man..." he muttered, deep blue eyes glancing out into the cold desolateness of space. "Too quiet out here for the likes of me." The murky depths gazing at the neverending blackness sooned roamed over to the L2 colony, his home. The home that this battle, one of the small, seemingly meaningless fights that made up the entire war, was about.
"Duo! OZ MS heading your way...!" The Arabian's voice shattered Duo's train of thought.
"OZ mobile suit!?" He bellowed without thinking, then jerking out of his slump and hastily turning on the battle and radar systems again.
"Yes," Quatre, from Sandrock, of course, spoke again, "he is headed in your general direction. Are you allri--" The blond's transmission was abruptly cut off, replaced by somewhat of an evil chuckle.
"Goodbye."
"What!?" Duo shouted, honestly surprised. He jerked again, whirling Deathscythe around.
The opposing mobile suit seemed to grin. "Goodbye," came the voice over the intercom. The enemy raised his large beam gun, which was attached to the left arm of the Mobile Suit. The gun looked remarkably like Heero's own beam cannon, only not so.. colorful.
"Kuso! KISAMA!" Duo cursed, but he knew he was too late as he lurched, violently jammed the controls of his Gundam to the left.
The OZ affiliate's laser rifle seemed to glow yellow as it gathered energy. Electricity almost crackled off of it, heat rising to a dangerous level.
Amazingly, Deathscythe made it out unscathed. Duo's breathing evened as he watch the bright beam of dangerous energy fly past him
And blow straight into the colony.
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No, before you ask, this is NOT the reason Hee-chan killed Duo-chan...X.x I've got at least two or three more chapters to come... this one was mainly a teaser.... Gomen! An' remember... this takes place BEFORE Duo's death...
Hopefully, you figured that out.
Unless you thought Duo was flying around in his Gundam with a hole through his head.
*Continues to ramble*
Ja!
Oh yeah.. REVIEW if you want me to write!! I need.. uh.. people to inspire me!! ...yeah, that's it! ~.^
~Auto-chan
(Ignore the fact that there are more rambles than actually story in this.... I promise.. it will get better...!!)
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