Chapter 20

"Nani—?!" yelled Trowa as the smoke cleared from a blown-up Leo, "Where'd all those suits come from?!?!"

Quatre turned and looked over the battle field to find at least another 200 suits waiting for them, "It's not possible!!!" he yelled, amazed.

"Looks like they had backup guys." WuFei stated calmly, "Anyone of you seen Duo?"

"He's on the west side of the building." Heero stated as Wing Zero was seen blowing up around ten of the newly arrived suits.

"No, Heero," WuFei answered and blew up two MS using his dragonclaws, "I'm on the west side."

"He's not over here." chorused Trowa and Quatre, who were on the east and north sides, respectively.

"I don't see him from here, I'll take a look around." Heero called back then realized something, that building we came out of should've blown up by now...could the self destruct have been shut down? If so...by who?

"Heero, did you get Relena?" asked Quatre as he sunk his two blades into an Aries.

"I'm here." she stated over the comm., "Reena got me out, even though he shot her."

"You shot Reena?!" yelled Lys, "What the hell were you thinking baka?!?!?"

"It was by mistake!" yelled back Heero and it seemed like he put extra force into the blow at a Taurus, "I was shooting at Relena and she got in my way..." he mumbled.

"You make that sound as if it were a bad thing Heero." Trowa said.

"No, well...I just don't like to make mistakes." He mumbled again.

"What is wrong with you people?! Is Ree Ok?!?!?" Ami shouted.

"I hit her arm, it wasn't a very bad hit, she dodged most of it, she's fine." he answered.

"Oi guys," Quatre said slowly, "shouldn't Duo be freaking out at Heero right now? He hasn't come in on this conversation yet and I'm a bit worried."

"Hai, you're right Quatre. Duo always has his two cents worth to put in and I imagine he'd be pretty pissed about Heero shooting his girlfriend." Trowa stated, "Isn't that right Duo?"

No answer.

"Duo!" Quatre called, "You there? This isn't funny Duo!"

"I don't see him anywhere. That base we came out of should've blown up by now." Heero looked up at a team of Aries that were hovering behind the field of MS.

"What are those four mechs doing over there?" asked WuFei, "Can you see them? The four Aries at ten o-clock."

"I see them." Heero said, "It looks like they're up to something, I'll work my way over there. You guys just keep fighting. This whole base must be destroyed." he said as he slashed down eight Leo's with his beam sword and worked his way over to the Aries.

"No, Allah!" Quatre yelled, "Shoot them!!! Shimetta!!! Kill those bastards!!!" Quatre went off into a string of curses in Arabic, English, Chinese and Japanese as he tried to work his way to the Aries.

"Quatre? Daijobou?" Trowa asked, bewildered at his friends new additions to his usually mild vocabulary.

"Kisamas!!!" yelled Heero as he too saw what Quatre had seen, "They have the Deathscythe!!!"