Zero Conclusions
A Gundam Wing Story
Part three "Black Night"
Fanfiction by Heather Ann the Kachan
Fear struck over Heero as he looked over at Zero. None of them wanted to just leave Zero alone. That would allow her to storm around city doing god-knows-what! However, she had to stay somewhere for the night. Damn. Too bad Wufei left, otherwise, we could have just stuck her with him, Heero thought.
He examined each pilot. Zero and Quatre were catching up with each other. That is, after Zero hugged him and Quatre went blank for ten minutes. It might be a bad idea to leave her with him. Then next to him was Duo. Duo appeared to have a new playmate. A playmate with breasts. It might be a bad idea to leave her with him too. Then there was Trowa. Trowa was reliable and had a sister! Bingo…
"Heero," Trowa whipered over at Heero before Heero could say what he wanted to, "I'm a heavy sleeper…and I don't trust how Quatre and Duo are acting. Why don't you watch Zero for the night?"
Heero wanted to kill Zero right then. Either that or self-destruct. Then again, it couldn't be too bad. She was much physically weaker than anyone. It couldn't POSSIBLY be difficult to watch her, right? He continued following the converation between the others.
"I'm really impressed with how you just stood up to Wufei." Duo complimented.
"Yes." Trowa added, "You managed to pull the lion's teeth without getting bit."
"Its nothing." She bluched
Quatre couldn't say much more. He was still stunned after Zero had put an arm around him five minutes ago. Zero yawned.
"Perhaps we should call it a night." Trowa suggested.
"Good idea." Zero turned to Heero, as if to size him up, "Looks like its just you an'me!"
"You don't stay conserned about much for long, do you?" Heero observed.
Zero didn't reply, she just chuckled and walked inside the hotel…what an interesting night this'll be…
Trowa tossed in turned in his bed. He didn't like the fact that he knew he would have to fight again. Bearing thought of more battles, he found himself unable to sleep. The fighting that brought him to months without a sign of who he was. His thoughts were inturrupted by a sudden bang in the other room. Trowa had roomed with Duo and Quatre, while Heero, just next door, baby sat Zero. That sudden noise brought Quatre and Duo to their feet like children and put an ear to the door that connected the two rooms.
"Did ya hear that?" Duo whipsered, still listening.
"Go back to sleep." Trowa ordered from his bed, turning over, "Heero is with her. If there is a problem, I'm sure he can take care of it…"
Quatre backed up from the door, trying to be reasonable.
"Yes, but do you think Heero would try anything, er, I mean…"
"Don't worry about it!" Duo cheered, "Heero likes war-machines as much as Wufei likes women. He wouldn't touch her unless his life depended on it."
That worried Quatre more.
"Still, I'm going to check up on them…just to be safe."
Duo stepped away from the door so that Quatre could open it. Quatre walked into the other room cautiously. He was stunned at what he saw. Heero was flat out on the bed unconcious. His arm was hand-cuffed to a very bent bed post. Quatre and Duo with wide eyes ran over to Heero. Duo smacked Heero in the face to wake him up.
"Wake up, Heero buddy! What happened! Where the hell is Zero?"
"Is she captured? Injured?" Quatre asked nervously.
Heero looked up at them trying to focus. He could barely make out what they were saying, but he got the message. They wanted to know what happened. So he had to think of something to say.
"…she…leaving…gagged me with…"
Heero wasn't sending a full message, but Quatre, finding the bottle of rubbing alchohol on the floor, put the puzzle together.
"She's gagged him with rubbing alchohol."
"Where is she now?" Duo shook Heero like he was some sort of magic 8-ball.
Instead of getting an answer, Heero slumped to unconciousness. The pilots looked at each other in deep concern. Oh shit.
"What do we do now?" Duo asked ambitiously.
"We split up and hunt Zero down," Trowa suggested, "We can't allow her to run off like this."
"You're right. But where would she go?" Quatre asked,
"Where would any psychotic juvenile delinquence go?" Trowa wondered.
So there they were, all grouped around the city club. Heero, Trowa, and Quatre all looked at Duo funny.
"You think she's HERE?" Heero raised an eyebrow, knowing Duo's ulterior motive.
"Hey, if I were on a rampage, THIS is where I would go." Duo smiled, showing off a bit. The others sweatdropped to his amusement.
"Heero, are you sure you want to go searching with us?" Quatre asked him.
"I'm fine. Besides, I want to chase the girl down as payback." Heero told him.
"Okay, Duo, you check out the scene while the rest of us search the air and space ports. She's bound to show up somewhere." Trowa commanded. "If we don't find her by morning, then we should contact Wufei. He has a way of running into her."
"Shouldn't we contact him now?" Duo asked slightly confused.
"Do you want to listen to him rant about women and injustices this late?" Heero rhetorically stated. Duo didn't comment any further. He just strutted his way into the club while the others split up in three other directions.
Please be safe, Zero. Quatre begged to himself as he headed towards the local space port. Please don't get yourself killed before I can reach you.
Duo pushed himself through the crowd. The girls seemed to be all over him…Oh, this is sooo great, he thought to himself, NO! Wake up, Duo. You have a mission. You can't botch it now! Now, where is Zero?
He skimmed the dance floor with his eyes. He found her. She was well blended in with the crowd. Very not-Zero. She seemed normal almost. She must have some sort of split personality. Zero was flowing to the rhythm, dancing with a guy until he got too close. Then she shoved him hard enough to take a couple steps back. He then looked at her oddly and walked away. Duo ran up to her to talk to her.
"Ah, Duo-chan. What are you doing here?" She asked, looking completely clueless.
"Well…for one, I have to save you from Heero who is hunting you down pissed." Duo answered looking at her careless face.
"Don't you think I can take care of myself?"
"Yes," Duo patiently continued, "But the others are looking for you too and we'd really appreciate it if you would stay with us for the night. Now come on. If you get past me, then you know they'll just find you and beet you up harder tomarrow. Don't make me feel like the bad guy."
Zero smiled. She seemed okay with the situation. But then, her calm face developed batting eyes, her bangs in her face… a successful attempt to bring Duo to his knees.
"Okay, but just one more dance… you can have a drink in the meantime!" She sort of begged. Duo fell for it.
"I don't see what's wrong with that request." Afterall, nothing can go wrong as long as I keep both eyes on you. "Just one drink…"
THREE HOURS LATER:
Duo was smashed. One drink lead to another. Zero payed little attention. She was having fun blowing time, and she'll be damned if she ruined Duo's fun. Duo sat there with his flock of chicks while Zero was rockin' it out on the dance floor.
It was then when Zero felt something. Her mind flashed before her eyes as the Zero technology suddenly activated. The cold nothingness pulling at her wrists. Nothing was there, and she knew that she was hallucinating it. However, this feeling was a warning. They must be here…She screamed in her mind. Her eyes examined the crowd. A few suspicious looking people. Better get out of here…
"Hey, Duo?" She pushed through the crowd of females, flocking them away. Duo looked up, but all he could see was a blurred figure.
"Duo," Zero spoke to him, "We have to leave…NOW."
"*urp* one more dance, er, drink…." Duo moved his weary head to focus his eyes.
"You, a Gundam pilot, got drunk?! On a mission?!" Zero asked astound.
"Its nothing, babe." Duo put an arm around her waist, "I'm not wasted enough to make out! If you know what I mean."
Zero rolled her eyes at the idiot. She moved the hand from her waist and put it over her shoulders.
"Damn, this sucks." She whined.
She skimmed the crowd again. Seven. Seven that notice me, anyway. She menally counted the number of stalkers. She tried to help the limping Duo to the door. Unfortunately, Duo was slowly falling to unconiousness. His weight got heavier and heavier. Soon, she wouldn't be able to carry him. She couldn't just leave him there. Surely, the enemy would find him and kill him. Not to meantion the others would never forgive her for leaving the idiot behind.
Soon, Zero was carrying Duo's full weight. She stopped right in front of a man, dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses. His hair was platunum blonde, spiked up. He looked down upon Zero and Duo, not yet showing a weapon.
"Lemmie guess," Zero sarcassed, "You're that dude from the movie Blade…"
"So we meet again, Zero." He spoke in a humored voice, "I knew I would find you again."
Zero didn't respond. She dropped Duo on the floor and put her arms up in defeat. Slyly, she gave them an evil smile and shouted,
"HELP ME! THIS MAN IS TRYING TO RAPE ME!"
The man infront of her turned as pale as a vampire. He covered her mouth and ran towards a wall. Two of his henchmen grabbed Duo and followed. Zero struggled with the man's strength as he dragged her towards the wall. He then threw a grenade at the wall. At the same time, Zero sunk her teeth into the man's hand. The grenade hit the wall and exploded on impact, filling the room with dust.
Trowa was silent when he drove his car back to the club to check on Duo. He seemed quiet, but his thoughts weren't. He didn't have any luck at the subway station, trying to find Zero. Of course she wouldn't go there. That's far too obvious. Where would she go? She wasn't going to fool around too badly with us. Maybe she wouldn't leave right away. Maybe she is trying to wait us out for a day or two before leaving the city. The club would be the perfect place for that. Duo should have no problem trying to find her there…
Trowa paused all thinking as he screetched to a hault outside of the club. He saw the side wall collapse as figures dragged Zero and Duo out of the building. Zero was doing everything she could to get away. That is, until they put a gun to her head. Duo appeared to be unconcious. I hope he didn't do anything stupid to get himself hurt. Trowa watched as they all loaded into the van. The van then sped out into the street. Trowa followed in persuit instantly. He followed them to the spaceport. Quatre saw Trowa's car and ran after it.
The van pulled into an awaiting shuttle. Then the shuttle, with van and all, took off into outerspace. Trowa stopped the car. He calmly walked out and looked at the speeding Quatre. When Quatre caught up, he was too out of breath to ask questions. Trowa answered him, anyway.
"Zero and Duo were in there. Its too late. They're gone."
Quatre smiled and gasped what he REALLY had to say.
"Not…Quite…" He paused until he could make full sentences. "I saw that shuttle earlier and thought it looked suspicious. So I put a tracking device in it secretly. We should be able to find them in no time."
"Great." Trowa stated, "Let's find the others and tell them what we've found."
"DAAAAMMMMNNN!!!!" Duo moaned when he woke up several hours later. The shuttle had already landed and placed Duo and Zero in their own prison cell. It was worse than Duo imagined: confinement and a hang over. "Why is it always me that gets locked up? Why never Quatre? Or Trowa?…"
"Shut up…" Zero muttered from the opposite dark corner of the room. He thought it was Zero. The voice matched up, but it was too dark to tell for certain, "If you stopped drinking when we had to leave, we wouldn't be in this mess."
"Hey!" Duo argued playfully, "You're the one who snuck out! I had to take time off of my precious beauty sleep to come after you!"
"Yea, but it was you and your friends that stuck me in the same room as Heero! Do you blame me for running?"
That comment made both of them chuckle. Zero's side of the laughter was short. But Duo did hear her struggling. He tried to get on his feet, but almost fell over. He was still a little tipsy and off balance from the previous night. Not to meantion the arm-cuffs weren't helping. He leaned his back against the wall and slowly slid down to a sitting position next to Zero to see what the hell she was doing.
Zero was fussing to get those arm-cuffs off. She shoved up and down, cutting into her arms and hands. Pushing and thrusting, tears went streaming down her face in pain. A few of the dropps followed the length of the scar that she had gotten on the day that Zero had met Duo and the others. Soon, her hand vanished out of eyesight and appeared again, free of that cuff. Once the first one was off, the second was no problem.
"I have been stuck in so many cells and I have yet to have figure that out. How the hell did you do it?" Duo asked in amazement.
"heh. I have double jointed thumbs and thin wrists. You can't do it on your own." She explained. "Here, let me help you. It will hurt for a moment."
She dislocated Duo's thumb out of place as she held the cuffs for him to pull his arm out. It worked. The second one went just as quickly. Both prisoners rubbed their arms in relaxation as they sat in silence.
"Hey!" Duo cheered, "Don't look so depressing! The others will come for us sooner or later. Don't worry about it."
"The Blood Hounds." Zero stated, "They caputred us. They're the ones who are starting all of this commotion again. I've done more than enough to piss these guys off."
"So why do they want us."
"ME." She corrected, "They want me for my Zero technology. They brought you along so I could comply better, I guess."
"Comply?"
"For expiriments. To copy what was done to me. The doctors ended the ZERO project for a purpose. That was so that there weren't any more neurotic people like myself running around." Zero explained.
Zero quivered for a moment. She flashes back to a point in her life, where she was very small. She was alone with a little boy. The little boy ran to her and she held up a gun, telling him to back up. He didn't listen. She pulled the trigger. She awakened from her own memory by Duo's touch on the shoulder.
"If you think it'll be alright, then it'll be alright
Your chance will come,
Its surely OK!" He half sang. The song sounded made up, but who could tell with Duo?
"Glad one of us is confident." Zero muttered.
"Don't you have faith? Hope?" Duo looked at her a little stunned.
"Who do I believe in? God? HA! Such a thing doesn't exsist to me." Zero stopped herself when she noticed Duo's garb. "Sorry."
"None needed," Duo explained, "I only believe in Shinigami. I also believe in my friends and past family.They are always there when I need them most…"
Duo leaned back against the wall shutting his eyes. Thinking of his loved ones always cheered him up. Zero sighed next to him. So many times she tried to trust people. So many times she couldn't bring herself to do it. She wasn't about to trust Duo. He was too gullable, naïve…and cute!
"Hey," Duo muttered reaching into his shirt, "Take this."
He pulled out an old cross attached to a chain that roped around his neck.. Very antique in its design. He graciously placed it around Zero's neck. She tried to refuse, but it went unheard. Duo wanted her to have it.
"If you don't have faith in anyone, then have faith in this."
"I hope I understand what you mean someday." Zero laughed, looking at the priceless object.
Duo smiled in response. However, the calm moment didn't last. The cell door opened to see a sillouette of a soldier standing in view.
"Zero, the boss wants to see you…NOW!"
A Gundam Wing Story
Part three "Black Night"
Fanfiction by Heather Ann the Kachan
Fear struck over Heero as he looked over at Zero. None of them wanted to just leave Zero alone. That would allow her to storm around city doing god-knows-what! However, she had to stay somewhere for the night. Damn. Too bad Wufei left, otherwise, we could have just stuck her with him, Heero thought.
He examined each pilot. Zero and Quatre were catching up with each other. That is, after Zero hugged him and Quatre went blank for ten minutes. It might be a bad idea to leave her with him. Then next to him was Duo. Duo appeared to have a new playmate. A playmate with breasts. It might be a bad idea to leave her with him too. Then there was Trowa. Trowa was reliable and had a sister! Bingo…
"Heero," Trowa whipered over at Heero before Heero could say what he wanted to, "I'm a heavy sleeper…and I don't trust how Quatre and Duo are acting. Why don't you watch Zero for the night?"
Heero wanted to kill Zero right then. Either that or self-destruct. Then again, it couldn't be too bad. She was much physically weaker than anyone. It couldn't POSSIBLY be difficult to watch her, right? He continued following the converation between the others.
"I'm really impressed with how you just stood up to Wufei." Duo complimented.
"Yes." Trowa added, "You managed to pull the lion's teeth without getting bit."
"Its nothing." She bluched
Quatre couldn't say much more. He was still stunned after Zero had put an arm around him five minutes ago. Zero yawned.
"Perhaps we should call it a night." Trowa suggested.
"Good idea." Zero turned to Heero, as if to size him up, "Looks like its just you an'me!"
"You don't stay conserned about much for long, do you?" Heero observed.
Zero didn't reply, she just chuckled and walked inside the hotel…what an interesting night this'll be…
Trowa tossed in turned in his bed. He didn't like the fact that he knew he would have to fight again. Bearing thought of more battles, he found himself unable to sleep. The fighting that brought him to months without a sign of who he was. His thoughts were inturrupted by a sudden bang in the other room. Trowa had roomed with Duo and Quatre, while Heero, just next door, baby sat Zero. That sudden noise brought Quatre and Duo to their feet like children and put an ear to the door that connected the two rooms.
"Did ya hear that?" Duo whipsered, still listening.
"Go back to sleep." Trowa ordered from his bed, turning over, "Heero is with her. If there is a problem, I'm sure he can take care of it…"
Quatre backed up from the door, trying to be reasonable.
"Yes, but do you think Heero would try anything, er, I mean…"
"Don't worry about it!" Duo cheered, "Heero likes war-machines as much as Wufei likes women. He wouldn't touch her unless his life depended on it."
That worried Quatre more.
"Still, I'm going to check up on them…just to be safe."
Duo stepped away from the door so that Quatre could open it. Quatre walked into the other room cautiously. He was stunned at what he saw. Heero was flat out on the bed unconcious. His arm was hand-cuffed to a very bent bed post. Quatre and Duo with wide eyes ran over to Heero. Duo smacked Heero in the face to wake him up.
"Wake up, Heero buddy! What happened! Where the hell is Zero?"
"Is she captured? Injured?" Quatre asked nervously.
Heero looked up at them trying to focus. He could barely make out what they were saying, but he got the message. They wanted to know what happened. So he had to think of something to say.
"…she…leaving…gagged me with…"
Heero wasn't sending a full message, but Quatre, finding the bottle of rubbing alchohol on the floor, put the puzzle together.
"She's gagged him with rubbing alchohol."
"Where is she now?" Duo shook Heero like he was some sort of magic 8-ball.
Instead of getting an answer, Heero slumped to unconciousness. The pilots looked at each other in deep concern. Oh shit.
"What do we do now?" Duo asked ambitiously.
"We split up and hunt Zero down," Trowa suggested, "We can't allow her to run off like this."
"You're right. But where would she go?" Quatre asked,
"Where would any psychotic juvenile delinquence go?" Trowa wondered.
So there they were, all grouped around the city club. Heero, Trowa, and Quatre all looked at Duo funny.
"You think she's HERE?" Heero raised an eyebrow, knowing Duo's ulterior motive.
"Hey, if I were on a rampage, THIS is where I would go." Duo smiled, showing off a bit. The others sweatdropped to his amusement.
"Heero, are you sure you want to go searching with us?" Quatre asked him.
"I'm fine. Besides, I want to chase the girl down as payback." Heero told him.
"Okay, Duo, you check out the scene while the rest of us search the air and space ports. She's bound to show up somewhere." Trowa commanded. "If we don't find her by morning, then we should contact Wufei. He has a way of running into her."
"Shouldn't we contact him now?" Duo asked slightly confused.
"Do you want to listen to him rant about women and injustices this late?" Heero rhetorically stated. Duo didn't comment any further. He just strutted his way into the club while the others split up in three other directions.
Please be safe, Zero. Quatre begged to himself as he headed towards the local space port. Please don't get yourself killed before I can reach you.
Duo pushed himself through the crowd. The girls seemed to be all over him…Oh, this is sooo great, he thought to himself, NO! Wake up, Duo. You have a mission. You can't botch it now! Now, where is Zero?
He skimmed the dance floor with his eyes. He found her. She was well blended in with the crowd. Very not-Zero. She seemed normal almost. She must have some sort of split personality. Zero was flowing to the rhythm, dancing with a guy until he got too close. Then she shoved him hard enough to take a couple steps back. He then looked at her oddly and walked away. Duo ran up to her to talk to her.
"Ah, Duo-chan. What are you doing here?" She asked, looking completely clueless.
"Well…for one, I have to save you from Heero who is hunting you down pissed." Duo answered looking at her careless face.
"Don't you think I can take care of myself?"
"Yes," Duo patiently continued, "But the others are looking for you too and we'd really appreciate it if you would stay with us for the night. Now come on. If you get past me, then you know they'll just find you and beet you up harder tomarrow. Don't make me feel like the bad guy."
Zero smiled. She seemed okay with the situation. But then, her calm face developed batting eyes, her bangs in her face… a successful attempt to bring Duo to his knees.
"Okay, but just one more dance… you can have a drink in the meantime!" She sort of begged. Duo fell for it.
"I don't see what's wrong with that request." Afterall, nothing can go wrong as long as I keep both eyes on you. "Just one drink…"
THREE HOURS LATER:
Duo was smashed. One drink lead to another. Zero payed little attention. She was having fun blowing time, and she'll be damned if she ruined Duo's fun. Duo sat there with his flock of chicks while Zero was rockin' it out on the dance floor.
It was then when Zero felt something. Her mind flashed before her eyes as the Zero technology suddenly activated. The cold nothingness pulling at her wrists. Nothing was there, and she knew that she was hallucinating it. However, this feeling was a warning. They must be here…She screamed in her mind. Her eyes examined the crowd. A few suspicious looking people. Better get out of here…
"Hey, Duo?" She pushed through the crowd of females, flocking them away. Duo looked up, but all he could see was a blurred figure.
"Duo," Zero spoke to him, "We have to leave…NOW."
"*urp* one more dance, er, drink…." Duo moved his weary head to focus his eyes.
"You, a Gundam pilot, got drunk?! On a mission?!" Zero asked astound.
"Its nothing, babe." Duo put an arm around her waist, "I'm not wasted enough to make out! If you know what I mean."
Zero rolled her eyes at the idiot. She moved the hand from her waist and put it over her shoulders.
"Damn, this sucks." She whined.
She skimmed the crowd again. Seven. Seven that notice me, anyway. She menally counted the number of stalkers. She tried to help the limping Duo to the door. Unfortunately, Duo was slowly falling to unconiousness. His weight got heavier and heavier. Soon, she wouldn't be able to carry him. She couldn't just leave him there. Surely, the enemy would find him and kill him. Not to meantion the others would never forgive her for leaving the idiot behind.
Soon, Zero was carrying Duo's full weight. She stopped right in front of a man, dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses. His hair was platunum blonde, spiked up. He looked down upon Zero and Duo, not yet showing a weapon.
"Lemmie guess," Zero sarcassed, "You're that dude from the movie Blade…"
"So we meet again, Zero." He spoke in a humored voice, "I knew I would find you again."
Zero didn't respond. She dropped Duo on the floor and put her arms up in defeat. Slyly, she gave them an evil smile and shouted,
"HELP ME! THIS MAN IS TRYING TO RAPE ME!"
The man infront of her turned as pale as a vampire. He covered her mouth and ran towards a wall. Two of his henchmen grabbed Duo and followed. Zero struggled with the man's strength as he dragged her towards the wall. He then threw a grenade at the wall. At the same time, Zero sunk her teeth into the man's hand. The grenade hit the wall and exploded on impact, filling the room with dust.
Trowa was silent when he drove his car back to the club to check on Duo. He seemed quiet, but his thoughts weren't. He didn't have any luck at the subway station, trying to find Zero. Of course she wouldn't go there. That's far too obvious. Where would she go? She wasn't going to fool around too badly with us. Maybe she wouldn't leave right away. Maybe she is trying to wait us out for a day or two before leaving the city. The club would be the perfect place for that. Duo should have no problem trying to find her there…
Trowa paused all thinking as he screetched to a hault outside of the club. He saw the side wall collapse as figures dragged Zero and Duo out of the building. Zero was doing everything she could to get away. That is, until they put a gun to her head. Duo appeared to be unconcious. I hope he didn't do anything stupid to get himself hurt. Trowa watched as they all loaded into the van. The van then sped out into the street. Trowa followed in persuit instantly. He followed them to the spaceport. Quatre saw Trowa's car and ran after it.
The van pulled into an awaiting shuttle. Then the shuttle, with van and all, took off into outerspace. Trowa stopped the car. He calmly walked out and looked at the speeding Quatre. When Quatre caught up, he was too out of breath to ask questions. Trowa answered him, anyway.
"Zero and Duo were in there. Its too late. They're gone."
Quatre smiled and gasped what he REALLY had to say.
"Not…Quite…" He paused until he could make full sentences. "I saw that shuttle earlier and thought it looked suspicious. So I put a tracking device in it secretly. We should be able to find them in no time."
"Great." Trowa stated, "Let's find the others and tell them what we've found."
"DAAAAMMMMNNN!!!!" Duo moaned when he woke up several hours later. The shuttle had already landed and placed Duo and Zero in their own prison cell. It was worse than Duo imagined: confinement and a hang over. "Why is it always me that gets locked up? Why never Quatre? Or Trowa?…"
"Shut up…" Zero muttered from the opposite dark corner of the room. He thought it was Zero. The voice matched up, but it was too dark to tell for certain, "If you stopped drinking when we had to leave, we wouldn't be in this mess."
"Hey!" Duo argued playfully, "You're the one who snuck out! I had to take time off of my precious beauty sleep to come after you!"
"Yea, but it was you and your friends that stuck me in the same room as Heero! Do you blame me for running?"
That comment made both of them chuckle. Zero's side of the laughter was short. But Duo did hear her struggling. He tried to get on his feet, but almost fell over. He was still a little tipsy and off balance from the previous night. Not to meantion the arm-cuffs weren't helping. He leaned his back against the wall and slowly slid down to a sitting position next to Zero to see what the hell she was doing.
Zero was fussing to get those arm-cuffs off. She shoved up and down, cutting into her arms and hands. Pushing and thrusting, tears went streaming down her face in pain. A few of the dropps followed the length of the scar that she had gotten on the day that Zero had met Duo and the others. Soon, her hand vanished out of eyesight and appeared again, free of that cuff. Once the first one was off, the second was no problem.
"I have been stuck in so many cells and I have yet to have figure that out. How the hell did you do it?" Duo asked in amazement.
"heh. I have double jointed thumbs and thin wrists. You can't do it on your own." She explained. "Here, let me help you. It will hurt for a moment."
She dislocated Duo's thumb out of place as she held the cuffs for him to pull his arm out. It worked. The second one went just as quickly. Both prisoners rubbed their arms in relaxation as they sat in silence.
"Hey!" Duo cheered, "Don't look so depressing! The others will come for us sooner or later. Don't worry about it."
"The Blood Hounds." Zero stated, "They caputred us. They're the ones who are starting all of this commotion again. I've done more than enough to piss these guys off."
"So why do they want us."
"ME." She corrected, "They want me for my Zero technology. They brought you along so I could comply better, I guess."
"Comply?"
"For expiriments. To copy what was done to me. The doctors ended the ZERO project for a purpose. That was so that there weren't any more neurotic people like myself running around." Zero explained.
Zero quivered for a moment. She flashes back to a point in her life, where she was very small. She was alone with a little boy. The little boy ran to her and she held up a gun, telling him to back up. He didn't listen. She pulled the trigger. She awakened from her own memory by Duo's touch on the shoulder.
"If you think it'll be alright, then it'll be alright
Your chance will come,
Its surely OK!" He half sang. The song sounded made up, but who could tell with Duo?
"Glad one of us is confident." Zero muttered.
"Don't you have faith? Hope?" Duo looked at her a little stunned.
"Who do I believe in? God? HA! Such a thing doesn't exsist to me." Zero stopped herself when she noticed Duo's garb. "Sorry."
"None needed," Duo explained, "I only believe in Shinigami. I also believe in my friends and past family.They are always there when I need them most…"
Duo leaned back against the wall shutting his eyes. Thinking of his loved ones always cheered him up. Zero sighed next to him. So many times she tried to trust people. So many times she couldn't bring herself to do it. She wasn't about to trust Duo. He was too gullable, naïve…and cute!
"Hey," Duo muttered reaching into his shirt, "Take this."
He pulled out an old cross attached to a chain that roped around his neck.. Very antique in its design. He graciously placed it around Zero's neck. She tried to refuse, but it went unheard. Duo wanted her to have it.
"If you don't have faith in anyone, then have faith in this."
"I hope I understand what you mean someday." Zero laughed, looking at the priceless object.
Duo smiled in response. However, the calm moment didn't last. The cell door opened to see a sillouette of a soldier standing in view.
"Zero, the boss wants to see you…NOW!"
