Disclaimer: I own nothing, 'cept my mind; but I've probably lost that by now too.
Note to Reader: Duo and Wufei/Meiran are not sleeping together, yet.
Okay, now it's time to get this thing started. All right, boys and girls, get to your places! It's time to start Act IV.
One Week Later, Safehouse, Colony L3-X18999...
"Whew, I'm glad this mission's almost over," commented Duo, leaning back in his chair with his hands behind his head. "Once we finish, we can have ourselves a nice little vacation, just the two of us, eh, Wu-Man?"
"Yeah," said Meiran, sounding distant.
"Eh, Wu-Man, what's the matter?" asked Duo, noticing Meiran's distant mood, which in and of itself was a rare thing indeed.
((Chibi-Hilde: Ain't THAT the truth! *runs off to make sure Catherine's not in the kitchen again*))
"Eh?" asked Meiran. "Oh, it's nothing. Just thinking." Meiran glanced at the clock. "Duo, it's time."
Duo nodded and got up. They went out the door and got on Meiran's motorcycle, with Duo sitting behind Meiran. Meiran revved the engine and they took off through the streets. About half an hour later, they arrived at their destination, a tall office building with lots of windows that was not an office building at all, but a mobile suit factory for those who were attempting to revive the Barton Foundation. Once they blew up this factory, their mission would be over.
Meiran stopped the bike and put the kickstand down. Duo climbed off, followed by Meiran. Duo and Meiran slipped around to a rear entrance and slipped inside. They skillfully avoided security gaurds and systems. Once inside, they set to work planting explosives. Within 10 minutes, Duo had finished. He slipped back outside and waited by the bike for Meiran to finish.
Meiran set the last of her explosives, just as a gaurd spotted her. "Stop right there," exclaimed the gaurd. Meiran wasn't about to stop. She hopped to her feet and took off running down the halls. She spun around a corner as the gaurd fired off a shot that grazed her arm. Deciding that secrecy was no longer and option, she made her way to the front doors and ran out them followed by weapons fire from about 10 gaurds.
Duo saw Meiran come running out the front doors. "NOOOOO!!!!!" he yelled as Meiran's body was racked with bullets. He ran forward, heedless of the weapons fire, and grabbed Meiran. He hurriedly carried her towards the bike, not even noticing when a bullet grazed his arm. All that mattered to him at this moment was getting his Wu-Man to a hospital.
The next few minutes were a blur for both Duo and Meiran. Duo wasn't sure how he'd gotten to this particular hospital. All he knew was he held his Wu-Man close as he drove the bike through seemingly endless city streets. He quickly picked up Meiran and rushed her into the Emergency Room. A doctor told him to put her down on a gurney. Duo followed as they rushed Meiran down into a small room.
"His name is Chang Wufei," answered Duo when asked.
"He's got bullet wounds in the chest, arms, and legs," exclaimed one of the doctors. "He's lost a lot of blood."
"You mean she," replied the other doctor, who had started cutting Meiran's bloody pants off to treat her injuries.
"What?" asked the first doctor.
"Look," said the second doctor as she finished pulling away the blood soaked pants Meiran had been wearing.
"You're right!" exclaimed the first doctor as he finished cutting away Meiran's shirt and started treating her injuries.
After finishing removing the bullets and repairing Meiran's injuries as best they could, the doctors sent her up to ICU. The female doctor went out into the waiting room where Duo was scaring the hell out of everyone else who was in here as he paced back and forth. "Sir," she said to Duo.
Duo whipped around to look at the doctor. "Is Wufei okay?" he asked worriedly.
"We've done everything we can. She's in ICU now...there's a chance she'll be okay, but things don't look good."
"Don't you mean 'he'?" asked Duo, sounding confused.
"No," replied the doctor. "We thought she was a guy at first, but when we were working on her, we discovered that she is, quite completely, a woman."
"That can't be right!" exclaimed Duo.
"Come with me," said the doctor as she turned and led Duo, who followed immediately, up to the 4th floor and into an ICU room. She walked over to the chinese person in the bed and carefully removed the covers revealing Meiran's bandaged, but naked, body.
Duo stared at the chinese girl in unbelief. His expression slowly changed to one of hurt and anger as he realized that there was no denying the fact. "Bitch!" yelled Duo at the unconcious Meiran before running out of the room, down 4 flights of stairs and out the doors of the emergency room.
The doctor looked around dumbfounded, then replaced the covers over the girl's body. She left the room and went to make her rounds.
Duo saw Meiran's motorcycle parked out front and went straight to it. He climbed on, started the engine, revved it, and took off into the night, full speed through city streets, barely dodging cars, trucks, people, and other various items. A normal person's reflexes would've been too slow for such driving, but not a gundam pilot's. It was nearly half an hour before he noticed the blinking yellow light on the motorcycles panel of dials indicating that someone was calling him through the motorcycle's radio system. He slammed on the brakes and slid to a stop, kicked down the kickstand, and activated the radio. "What do you want?" he sneered.
"Duo?" asked Sally. "Where's Wufei? Have you completed the mission?"
"Yeah, we completed the mission," replied Duo. "And Miss Wufei is in ICU at some hospital. I hope that bitch doesn't make it."
"Duo, what are you talking about?" asked Sally, sounding confused.
"'Mr. I'm-Better-Than-Everyone-Especially-Women' is a woman." replied Duo angrily.
"Duo, I can explain..." started Sally, but Duo interrupted her.
"Save it, Sally," interrupted Duo, "I don't want to hear it. I'm coming back to Earth. If you want 'Wu-Man', come get her yourself." With that, he turned off the radio and took off on the bike again.
When he made it to the hanger where they had been keeping their gundams, he drove straight at Altron with the bike. He jumped off about 10 yards from Altron, the bike continuing on it's trajectory. A moment later, the bike hit Altron and exploded. The force of the explosion knocked Altron over onto its back. Duo smirked, hopped up into Deathscythe Hell, powered up, and left for Earth.
Chibi-Meiran: Injustice!!!! How dare he blow up my bike and knock over my gundam!? Where is he? Let me at him! If I catch that baka, I'm going to make him eat Catherine's soup!
Chibi-Catherine: *holds up a bowl of soup*
Other Chibis: *run away*
Koishii: Catherine, I told you to stay out of the kitchen. Anyway, I hope you all liked this Act and will continue reading. I'll get Act V up as soon as I can. =^.^=