When You Believe: Part Two
Disclaimer-I don't own gundam wing or any of it's characters. Though Quatre will be mine once he meets me! Hehehe :o)
Duo stretched and yawned. "Nothing exciting ever happens anymore. I can't wait for a war to break out!" he said. Wufei stopped doing pull-ups and wiped his brow with the back of his hand. "Really?" he asked. Duo smiled, "Nah, I was just trying to dilate myself… no… uh, y'know, di-dictate myself." Trowa looked up from the book he was reading, "That's delude yourself Great Destroyer." Duo stood up "That's what I said." All of the pilots had taken up residence with Quatre, reason being that they had no place to go. Heero was the only one of the pilots who didn't live there. No one could find him. He had just disappeared. Relena said that Heero would often leave gifts for her, but she rarely saw him. Duo walked over to the window. He looked out to see the perfect soldier walking toward the house. "Hey it's Heero!" The others looked up and saw him as well. Heero made his way to the room that they were in. Duo ran over and gave him a bear hug. "Heero, where ya been?" Heero managed to release him self from the great destroyer's grip. Quatre stood up and walked over "Welcome back Heero. It's good to see you again." Heero merely nodded his head. "Listen up," he said "someone broke into the hangar where our gundams are kept. We need to go make sure they're in one piece." Trowa set his book down "Are all the gundams still there?" Heero nodded his head again "Yes, but the guards said there's something different about them, like there's something missing."
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Sandrock
I could hear voices, but I still couldn't see anything. Even the voices sounded faint, far away. Then slowly, very slowly I started to see light. Eventually a face came into focus, a human face. I was scared and confused at first, but then I remembered what had happened. "Qu-Quatre?" I whispered. No wait, who was that? "Sandrock, are you alright?" It was Heavyarms. I groaned. My side was still hurting. I saw Deathscythe stand and make her way over to us. "We thought we lost you there for a while." I smiled, "You guys can't get rid of me that easy." They laughed. I tried to laugh but then gasped at the pain in my side where I had been shot. My hand strayed to the wound. I noticed there was something covering it. I looked up at Heavyarms, confused. "I saw Trowa do it once. He said it stops the bleeding and prevents infection…whatever that means." I saw that he had torn part of his red shirt and covered my wound with it. "Thank you." I said. Just then Shenlong and Wing Zero walked in. I hadn't noticed until then that we were in a small cave. Zero looked over at me and smiled. "Good you're awake. We need to move, they're getting closer." I looked at him, "Who is?" I saw the worried expression on his face. The humans with the guns." Deathscythe let out an exasperated sigh. "What are we going to do you guys? I mean, okay, we're human. We've figured that part out, but now what?" We heard shouting. Shenlong went outside and looked around. He came back in quickly and said "We gotta go, now." Deathscythe cast a concerned look towards me. "Can you walk?" Could I? Heavyarms helped me sit up and stand. The pain was almost overwhelming. We came out of the cave and made a beeline for some large bushes nearby. We waited there and listened to what the men were saying. "Hey over here!" "What is it, what did you find?" "Footprints, but they stop here. There's a bloodstain in the cave too. Must be from the one we shot earlier." They thoroughly searched the cave. "Any idea where they might have gone?" "Not a clue. They could be anywhere now." We saw another guard run up to the one we guessed was in charge. "Sir, we've just received word that the gundam pilots are on their way to the hangar." The man smiled "Good. Maybe they can sort out all this shenanigan." With that said, they all left. We decided to go back to the cave. Shenlong said he could see the hangar from there so we could watch for anyone coming. I lay down and did something I had never done before. I went to sleep.
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Back at the hangar, the pilots were on their computers checking their gundams from stem to stern. Trowa had just finished checking Heavyarms. "I can't find anything wrong here, how about you Wufei?" Wufei looked up from his laptop, "Negative. Duo, how's your gundam?" "Fit as a fiddle Wufei. Hey Heero, is Wing Zero alright?" Heero stood up and said "Yeah, everything's just fine here." Heero looked up at Wing Zero and just stared for a while. There was something different, but he just couldn't figure out what it was. Then he remembered the surveillance system he had installed. He was the only one that knew about it. It wasn't hooked up to the main system, so nobody could find out about it even if they tapped into one of the computers. He just didn't trust the security they had at this place. He went to the room he had set up and started to review the videos. What he saw made the color drain from his face.
Duo had finished up checking every nook and cranny on his gundam when he noticed Quatre just staring at Sandrock. "Hey Quatre, everything okay?" Quatre just stood there. Duo went over to him. "Quatre?" he asked. "Their shine," Quatre whispered. Duo got closer "Huh?" Quatre's eyes widened slightly, "Their shine, they've lost their shine." Duo looked up at the gundams and smiled. "Y'know, they've been sitting there for a while Quatre, at least five months. I'm sure they've collected more than a little dust…" Quatre shook his head, "No, that's not it. They've, they've dulled somehow." He went to his gundam and got into the cockpit. He tried to activate the system, but found that he couldn't. But how could that be? Absolutely everything was there, no parts or discs were missing, and nothing was damaged. "Hey you guys," he called down "See if you can activate your gundams." They tried, but found the same thing Quatre had. "Hey!" said Duo "It won't work!" Quatre got out of Sandrock and looked up at his now vacant gundam. He sighed, "It's just that shine Sandrock always had, that they all had. It was a special glimmer they all had. Now it's… now it's gone. Trowa saw the sad expression on his friend's face. He looked like he was about ready to cry. Duo walked over to them. "Y'know, now that you mention it, Deathscythe does look different somehow." Wufei joined them as well. "You're right," he said "Nataku… there's something different, missing." The four of them stared up at their gundams, wondering what to do next. "Uh, guys?" They looked to their right to see Heero walking in with a shocked expression on his face. He was pale and trembling slightly. This definitely got the pilots' attention. What could have happened to get such a reaction from the emotionless Heero Yui?
Okay, this didn't take as long as I thought it would, but I don't hear any complaining. Part three should be out soon! Please review. Thanx to the people who have been reviewing! :o)