If We Had Wings
A Story Of Five Individuals
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"I CANNAA BELAVE TIS IS FINARE APPENING!!!" Duo
exclaimed after another drink. He was well beyond the point of being buzzed… or
drunk for that matter. Duo was simply… beyond at the moment.
Heero couldn't help but smile to himself as he
sat right next to the teen, it might have been the alcohol smiling for him, but
still, the sight of Duo at the moment was funny as hell. Hilde was almost on
the floor laughing… then again that might have been the alcohol laughing for
her. Heero was the most sober of them, and he had twelve shots of tequila!
After Hilde had joined their band, things
started to really pick up in pace. Hilde and Heero had successfully convince
Duo that they needed to change the name of the band, so Duo came up with the
name 'Three Blind Mice', Hilde liked it because it was "so adorable!"… Although
Heero figured she would have agreed to anything that Duo suggested. After much
practicing and writing and planning, Hilde went to her friend who used to book
her old band places, and suddenly they had a show.
Six months later, Duos' plan to dominate the
music charts came to life when they got an offer to make a CD from MCA. Duo,
being the self-appointed leader of all that was musical, convinced them to sign…
and now they were drinking.
"I'M SO APPY!!!" Duo yelled and tried to get up on his feet, unsuccessfully. His
feet intertwined with the chair legs and he started to go down, Heero put his
arms out and caught him before he fell on Heero. Duo turned to Heero with a
lop-sided grin on his face. "Tank uo Eero…"
"No problem…" Heero said carefully articulating
his words and pushing Duo back into his chair.
Duo went for the almost empty bottle and
started to poor more shots for the three at the table. Hilde continued to
laugh, seemingly at nobody.
"Wat so funee?" Duo asked shoving a shot before
her, she took it and gracefully chugged it, then resumed laughing.
"This!" She yelled.
"Wat?"
"You lost me…" Heero mumble squinting his eyes
to look at her.
"Everything!" She laughed even more.
Duo gave a short giggle and leaned over to
whisper into Heeros' ear. "I tink se's srunk…"
"Really?"
"A…"
Then something really weird happened, something
that Heero wouldn't quite forget, even though he was pretty drunk. Hilde
grabbed Duo from across the table and kissed him. Duo looked shocked and then
pulled away, Hilde just kept laughing.
Heero wasn't too sure who passed out first, him
or Duo.
*
"You can pilot one of these?" The garage worker
asked. He had been working in New York for as long as OZ had been in power,
constantly meeting new OZ soldiers, but this one was definitely different. He
had specifically been recruited, and he didn't have any prior knowledge in
combat.
"Yes… I learned in school," Wu Fei mumbled out
his reply and started pressing a few buttons to his right, a screen came down
then with several written things running past. "My first mission…"
He hadn't really learned in school, he knew
things about MS from school, but for the last few months he had been trained.
The only reason he went along with it was to learn how to pilot these things,
so that when he escaped he could use them if he ever ran into Quatre or Treize
Khusrenada again.
"So, what exactly qualifies you for this?" The
worker asked. His curiosity opened.
"I don't know," Wu Fei, answered casually, he
pressed a few more buttons and the screen retreated. "Maybe they just needed
someone insane." He said and crawled out of the cockpit, pushing past the
worker. He grabbed onto a wire and began to descend to the floor. He only
looked back once at the huge Gundam Shenlong.
Another worker looked at him from the catwalk
across from the cockpit, he smiled in his mischievous way.
"I hear that Mr. Khusrenada recruited him
because he took a 'liking' to the boy."
"And I know just how accurate your inside info
has been in the past…" the worker said as he climbed onto the catwalk beside
his friend.
"It's true that the boy's very intelligent and
trained in combat… but he was also in an insane asylum. Now why would he
recruit someone like that?"
*
"I cannot believe you kissed her!" Heero yelled
at Duo, the two had woken up mysteriously in their apartment, Heero had been
awake for a while, and when Duo walked into the kitchen where Heero was playing
with his wooden knife, he simply snapped at the teen.
It took Duo a while to realize Heero was
yelling at him, Heero did loose his temper… a lot. But he was always so calm
about it, and it was a scary calmness. He never yelled when he got upset… it
just wasn't Heero. So Duo could tell something was really bugging him… then he
reprocessed the words Heero had just yelled at him.
"What? Kissed who?"
"HILDE!"
Duo looked on dumbfounded for a moment, and
then a brief glimmer of Hilde grabbing him and kissing him flashed through his
mind. He had been so drunk he'd almost forgotten, hopefully Hilde had too…
wait, why was Heero making such a big deal out of this.
"Oi Heero! We were drunk!" Duo protested as he
took a seat.
"That's no fucking excuse!" Heero yelled, the
anger that flashed through his eyes then made Duo want to shrivel up and die,
it'd be a better fate than seeing that look again.
"Well what do you want me to say?" Duo asked
confused, trying desperately to forget the look in his eyes.
"That it was a stupid thing to do!"
"Ok Heero, it was a stu- Wait one second! She
kissed me! Why don't you yell at her!?!" Duo asked rising to his feet, it was
Heeros' turn to look dumbfounded. "I don't even get why you're making such a
big deal over something Hilde did when she was drunk off her ass!"
Then Duo turned around and stormed out of the
apartment slamming the door as loud as possible in his anger. Heero took a seat
at the kitchen table, where Duo had just been sitting, and wondered what the
answer was. He couldn't express exactly what he felt, but it was just triggered
when they kissed. He never really liked Hilde to begin with; she was just so
friendly with Duo. And when they kissed…
Heero pushed the thoughts to the back of his
head, shoved his knife in his pocket and grabbed the nearest bagel to eat.
*
"OZ is starting to focus its attention on us…"
Quatre mumbled as Trowa held him in bed. "I read in the newspaper that they
wouldn't tolerate anti-OZ activity."
Trowa nodded in response.
"They might go to drastic measurements… like
censorship."
"OZ isn't used to threats," Trowa replied
calmly.
For the past few months bands and actors,
really anybody in the spotlight, all over the world had started their own
little anti-OZ campaign. On stages and in interviews they'd bash OZ; in turn
most of their fans started hating OZ as well. This started a spree of vandalism
on OZ territory and harassment of OZ soldiers, this along with the rebellion,
did not go well with Treize Khusrenada.
As it would be, Trowa Bloom and Quatre Winner
were two influential stars that help lead this anti-OZ movement. Now OZ
soldiers were constantly over viewing their concerts, and many arrest were made
at every concert.
"You think we should just let OZ be?"
"…I believe that OZ is a tyranny that must be
stopped," Trowa replied carefully, believing it to the fullest. "We can't back
down now."
*
Wu Fei walked down the hallway in a bit of a
daze. In a week he'd be transferred to outer space and he'd have to execute his
first mission. OZ believed they knew the location of the rebels' head base; he
had to get in, set bombs and get back out. He had a task force of ten people,
all highly skilled with explosives. He didn't really care; he took this as his
opportunity to escape.
He'd be in space again… his home.
Apparently some of the colonies had survived
demolition, like the one the rebels had claimed as their head base. Maybe he
could join them rather than kill them.
As Wu Fei turned the corner he saw Treize
Khusrenada walk down the hall with his three most trusted colleagues, Lady Une,
walked beside him followed by Zechs Marquise and Lucrezia Noin, who were mere
steps behind them. They walked into the boardroom and the door closed behind
them.
He'd heard a lot about those soldiers, but never
actually talked to them before.
*
"This has to stop," Treize said after
explaining the situation with the musicians and actors.
"I agree completely, the world shouldn't hate
us…" Zechs spoke up.
"So how can we stop them?" Lucrezia asked
looking over the file in her hand. "I think we're in a lose-lose situation."
"We should arrest anyone who is anti-OZ, call
them rebels. Enemies of the Unified-Nations." Une stated simply.
"Yeah, and then all their fans will hate us,"
Lucrezia pointed out. "Like I said, lose-lose."
"Once they're all arrested people will stop
listening to them," Une said glaring dangerously at Lucrezia.
"It'll take some time," Zechs pointed out, he
was trying to take neither side.
"It doesn't matter how long it takes, but it
has to stop. I will not tolerate the world rebelling against us," Treize said.
"Now, end this now before I have a civil war on my hands!" Treize ordered.
"Dismissed."
*
For a week after the fight, things had been a
bit awry between Duo and Heero, but things just got back to normal after about
two weeks. They weren't hostile towards each other, and the incident was never
mentioned (also, they never told Hilde who had completely forgotten). So in the
calm after the storm Duo brought something to Heeros' attention.
"I had a thought the other day," Duo said to
Heero in a cheery manner.
Heero looked up at him, signifying that Duo had
his attention, but said nothing.
"I was watching the news-."
"You watched the news?" Heero asked raising his
eyebrows in both interest and confusion.
"Shut up." Duo started to walk around the room
nervously. "They were talking about the whole musical revolution thing… and I
was thinking, we're recording our CD in a bit, and then going on tour. So we're
going to have some air time to ourselves and…"
"And?"
"You know OZ right?" Duo asked bluntly.
"You mean the organisation that controls the
Earth?"
"Yeah."
"Never heard of them."
"Haha, anyway. What do you think of them?
"Can't say I like them…"
"Good, because I hate them just as much as the
next Karma Sutre fan, which is why we should do this."
"Do what?"
"Support the whole anti-OZ movement," then Duo
quickly added. "I was talking it over with Hilde, and she agrees with me-"
"Duo. You don't have to ask me permission."
"I know… I just didn't want you getting mad at
me when I started bashing them on stage." Duo finished with one of his famous
grins.
Heero couldn't help but smile at the boy; he
quickly wiped the smile off his face and nodded.
"Hn."
"Oh man… you really need a thesaurus."
(Woohoo, another chapter… finally. It took me a
while, I needed a hell of a lot of motivation, but I finally wrote this and
half of another chapter *which should be out before Christmas… not too long…
heh…*. I like this because I think Heero is actually evolving, he's getting in
touch with his emotions and such, I think all the characters need evolvement,
so hopefully by the end of this Fic all will be good. Wu Fei has definitely had
evolvement… I'm not sure if it was good evolvement or not, but there it is. Ok
then, I have a lot of Fics to catch up on before I can even consider carrying
this one on further *at least I re-did it for you guys, now you can read
through my grammar, spelling and cultural mistakes! HURAH!* so, I best be
going. Cao. REVIEWS WILL MAKE ME WROK FASTER!!!)