"I heard that two of the gundam pilots escaped." The first one said to the other.
"No, no one was a gundam pilot and the other was some mechanic." The second corrected.
"Oh well that's what I heard."
"They must've known Mr. Duke pretty well for them to get into his room like that."
"Yea those pilots are pretty sneaky."
"Tell me about it! I was with Oz a few years ago and they blew up every single base we owned!! One even infiltrated from the inside!"
"Wow really? I didn't want to get involved in politics then. It was all to complicated."
"Yea. Well anyways do you think those pilots killed Mr. Duke?"
"I don't know. Maybe he shot one of them?"
"Heh probably, I mean have you ever seen him at the range?"
"Yea it's amazing!"
"Girls shut up and get back to your posts!" an obviously higher-ranking officer yelled over to the two women.
The two females looked over to the gruff male and rolled their eyes.
"Oh can it Justin you just got promoted. You were one of US yesterday ya know." The first female said as she returned to her post.
The officer named Justin gave a "humph" and turned his back to the two ladies and continued his patrol.
Up in the vent Duo and Quatre sat in silence hoping that Duke was the one that was killed and not either of their friends. The blonde headed pilot sitting across from Duo looked down at his rugged red tennis shoes his eyes being filled with tears of determination and worry for what might have happened.
"Lets go and kill this Rolthen bastard." He said. "He deserves to die."
Duo looked to Quatre with surprise, he knew Quatre could be ruthless if he wanted to, but it always caught him off guard. Never the less the blue-eyed pilot nodded to Quatre and they both continued down the vent to their destination not but a few feet away, Rolthen's office.
Rolthen sat directly below the two men just as he did before when Heero and Trowa were collecting the blue prints. The Black Wolves leader was alone, which was good for the two assassins who had come to murder him.
Duo volunteered himself to move the grate from the vent. He moved it soundlessly and placed it behind him and waited for Quatre to move in. Sandrock's pilot slipped into the seemingly small room quietly and landed just behind Rolthen. After landing he quickly placed his right hand over the man's mouth and Duo quickly jumped from the vent above and locked the wooden door serving as the entrance into Rolthen's office.
Rolthen, totally caught unaware, gave a muffled yell for help, which was not heard by anyone but his two assassins.
"Now you just sit tight there, Mr. R and this will be all over and done with soon enough." The God of Death said smartly as he approached the captive man.
"Mr. R" glared at the approaching pilot and removed Quatre's hand from his mouth.
"What do you want with me?" he demanded. "And call me Rolthen, it's most inappropriate to call me Mr. R"
"Inappropriate, he says." Duo laughed. "I think it was pretty inappropriate when you took us from our base and beat us to death!"
Rolthen stayed silent and Quatre answered his (Rolthen's) previous question.
"The only reason we want you Rolthen, is because we wish to kill you." The blonde haired boy said quite evilly and calmly.
Rolthen now looked to Quatre and raised a brow.
"Why on Earth do you want to kill me? I'm trying to make a better world. One that pilots like yourselves will be able to relax."
"Why do we want to kill you?" Duo spoke up. "I'll give you a few good reasons why!" he continued slamming his hands on Rolthen's desk., and he motioned with his fingers as he spoke. "Number 1 you intend on blowing up all of the colonies! Number 2 You blinded and wounded my friend Neko. And Number 3 you hurt all the rest of my friends as well!; Not to mention you totally turned a good friend on us."
"Duke betrayed you on his own. I did nothing to persuade him." The captive answered. "And I do not intend to blow up the colonies. I merely intend to dispose of them for the moment until everything down on Earth is worked out."
"Hate to burst your bubble there, Mr. R but Disposing and blowing up are pretty much the SAME thing!!"
"Think what you want pilot," Rolthen answered. "I know my intentions."
"That's it I can't stand this guy anymore. Time to "dispose" of him." Duo said pulling out his gun.
Rolthen stood out of his chair and grinned. "You couldn't kill me. You pilots don't murder people personally."
"Heh wanna bet?" Duo slowly pulled the trigger of his gun back towards him. "Good-bye mister."
"Wait." Rolthen said. "Before you shoot me I must tell you, that you're girlfriend has a wonderful scream."
Duo's eyes narrowed and his gun rose higher to Rolthen's head. "Unlike her, you won't have time to scream."
Rolthen smirked and looked to Quatre. "Oh and I'd like to say that I very much enjoyed blinding your girlfriend. It might please you to know that she put up a good fight. I had to call 3 men to hold her down, the restraints didn't seem to work to well with her."
With that statement Quatre snapped. He immediately leapt on Rolthen sending both of them flying into the desk. The two men wrestled and Quatre soon had a strong grip on Rolthen's neck.
"You'll pay for her suffering." Quatre said his eyes filled with madness. "You'll pay."
Rolthen's smirk never faded but his face was beet red and was turning purple, kicked and punched Quatre desperately trying to free his neck from his strong grip. Duo cringed as he heard Rolthen's bones breaking; he never realized that Quatre ever had this kind of strength or this strong of a will to kill.
"You always think you know someone." Duo thought. "Until they get filled with hatred."
After a few more moments Rolthen's struggling ceased and his body went limp. Quatre held on to his now dead enemy's neck for a few more seconds until his madness cleared and he realized what had happened. He slowly stood and looked to Duo his cobalt blue eyes, once mad, were now filled with terror and sadness. He knew he had done something terrible and regretted it. Even though he knew Rolthen deserved his gruesome fate.
The God of Death walked over to Quatre and patted him.
"It's ok Quatre. He deserved to die, he had hurt and killed a lot of people in his life time, and now he is finally getting punished."
Quatre stared down at his hands wide eyed still feeling Rolthen's pulsing neck in them, what he did was totally wrong and uncalled for, but in a way, it seemed, was right.
For a long while the two men stood in silence and were awakened from their numbness when a sharp rap sounded at the door.
"Mr. Rolthen sir! There's a gundam attacking the base!! Sir?"
Both of the male pilots quickly looked to Rolthen's dead body and then to each other and then to the open vent above. They quickly jumped back up into the metal shaft and closed the grate and made their ascent to their designated meeting point at which they were supposed to meet Kawa and Neko.
The guard outside Rothen's door rapped a few more times and then discovered the door was locked, he frowned and busted the door open with a swift kick. Apon entering he noticed nothing unusual except for the number of papers scattered on the floor. He continued his search of the room and gasped with surprise and horror. In front of the Black Wolf soldier lay his leader. On his neck were two perfectly outlined red hand marks and his face still the same shade of bright violet.
"M-M-Mr. R-R-Rolthen s-s-sir?" he stuttered.
Not really expecting a response the soldier grabbed his walkie talkie and yelled into it.
"Mr. Rolthen is dead! Alert the base! We have killers loose!"