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Part V
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Duo
heard the door open and glanced over at it. Heero walked back inside and
glanced at Wind. "Its disarmed you can take it off now."
Wind
nodded and then took a small pocket knife from his jacket and set to work
getting the band off.
The
Doctor glanced at Heero. "You only shut off his right? Just his?" He
seemed nervous about something.
Heero
glared at him. "No all of them. Do you know of Plans Alpha and Beta Mir
San?"
The
Doctor's eyes grew wide. "They shouldn't come in effect unless you try to
mass unlock the doors...but you have a larger problem.. you shut down the
signal completely.. that means you launched Omega..." the older man
dropped to his knees closing his eyes as if praying and when Duo leaned closer
he realized the man *was* praying.
"Shit..
Doc. Tell us what Omega is." he said shaking the doctor's shoulder to get
his attention.
The
man looked up at him. "In less than a half an hour this building will be
nothing more than a heap of broken plaster, wood, and cement. There is large
explosive bigger than the ones involved in Beta sitting under the computer
buried under the cement in that room. When it goes off it will set all the
others off and if by some chance of fate their are survivors then the gas that
is released by the explosion would kill them instantly."
The
three Preventers looked at each other silently then nodded as one. Wind
finished cutting the band off Treize's wrist and threw it down to the floor,
replacing the knife in his jacket. "Let's find Trowa and get these people
out of here. They don't deserve this fate." he said standing up and
walking over to the door. Treize followed him and they left the room. Duo
walked away from the doctor and glanced once at Heero before following Wind and
the former general.
Heero
glared at the doctor. "Who is Subject Mir San and where is room
'00'?" he asked coldly.
The
Doctor looked at him and then grinned like a fool. "It doesn't matter
now.. you'll never find him in time and get all of the people out if you try to
do both.." The older man laughed. "Now that I am about to die would
you like to know something.. I guess you would since you asked about Mir San..
" Another half-crazed laugh. " Mir San is actually a shortened code name
meaning Miriald Sanc. Name and place of birth.. cute huh? " The Doctor
snickered and wiped his eyes. " So I guess there is an heir to the non-existent
throne of Sanc after all.. too bad he won't live long enough to know who he
actually is...or should I say was.."
Heero
gave the crazed doctor a disgusted glare and left the room, running back
quickly towards the computer room, but no matter what he tried on either panel
or the force applied to the door it wouldn't budge. Giving that up he turned
and then ran down the hall to catch up with the others.
*
Duo
ran down the right hall and stopped as he watched Trowa walking towards him
from the other end. He then saw the man behind him and grinned. "I see
Wind already found you."
Trowa
shook his head and then glanced back at Miriald before looking back at Duo.
"This isn't Wind, his name is Miriald."
Duo
looked back at the tall blonde behind him and studied him for a moment.
"Oh.. so the Doctor wasn't giving us a load of BS.. cool.. nice to meet
you Miriald Peacecraft."
He
got two startled stares for that, although Trowa recovered first. Miriald
lifted his hands signing towards Trowa.
/Peacecraft?
/
"Never
mind. I'll explain later.. but right now we have to get the people who are
still in here out. There's a bomb under this building and its going to blow in
less than twenty minutes. Those little bands are shut off too by the way.
" Duo said watching both of them.
/I
can help/
"Cool..
lets get going." Duo said as he stepped around them. "Oy.. look at
all these doors.."
Miriald
glanced at Trowa signing. /Not all the doors lead to personal rooms, some lead
to hallways/
"You
mean there's even more halls in this place?" Duo said looking back at
them.
The
blonde nodded. / But all of the halls leading from 'this' hallway are faculty
halls, they wouldn't have any residents in them/
Trowa
nodded in understanding. "All right. You tell us which doors are halls and
we'll skip those. Lets go."
**
Ten
minutes later, the four Preventer stood outside of the building. Over a hundred
and ninety people standing behind them.
Wind looked up to see Treize frozen a few feet away and quickly
made his way back towards the building to get him. "Treize.."
No response, except a small shiver.
Wind laid a hand on his shoulder. "Treize.. what's
wrong?" The older man had his eyes tightly closed and shivered again under
his hand. Wind felt a tap on his own shoulder and looked over to where it had
come from. A crimson haired elderly man looked at him then Treize and sighed.
"Its no use trying to talk to him when he's like that lad. Ye
best just pick him up and move him.. I keen that he must be feeling the people
ye had to leave behind. He feels their death coming for them."
Wind turned to look at Treize again and then surprisingly, Treize
opened his eyes and the threw his arms around him and buried his head into his
shoulder. "It hurts.." he whispered into his shoulder. Wind wrapped
his arms around him and half carried him further away from the building.
Minutes later, a massive explosion ripped through the building
blowing windows out and collapsing the walls of the building.