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telepathy I changed it from /./ because you couldn't tell the difference too well.



1.1 Chapter 9

1.1.1 Rescued

An hour or so after Kat was mutated, she woke up from the tranquilizer. Quatre had stood guard over her, watching the rise and fall of her chest as she breathed. She woke up screaming, her new claws shot out, causing Quatre to jump back and shout. The other three rushed over pulling Kat back from him. She realized who it was and sank down, as her claws retracted. She started sobbing leaning on Quatre, who had come back to her side. "I hurt all over," she cried," what did he do to me? I don't remember!" He wrapped his arms around her and told her what had happened and she picked pictures from his mind. "You watched over me through all that," she whispered." Yes, and I would do it all again to be with you," he whispered back. She laid her head down on his shoulder and wrapped an arm around his waist. She soon fell to sleep, dreaming fitfully.

Over the next week, the four other pilots also were mutated. Unlike Kat, they were fully tranquilized before they were mutated. Heero was first, coming out with gold-copper wings and tail, then Wufei, who had coal black wings and tail. Trowa was after him and came out with dark blue wings and tail. Finally, Quatre was mutated on their seventh day on the Victor. His was the hardest because had had little sleep, watching over Kat and the other pilots, who were in serious pain as their bodies were adjusting. He came out with silver wings like Kat, his wings and tail were tipped in black. By then Kat had gotten better, so she helped the boys to heal. "That's what we are," she thought angrily as she lay Quatre down after his ordeal," children fighting a man's fight. Pawns in a coward's game of chess." She looked at the other pilots and down at Quatre. "Those bastards don't know what they are doing to us, they never will." (AN: sorry about the sudden thought provoking thoughts, I wrote this right after 9-11 and I had to add that.)

By the tenth day all the pilots were better, Quatre's pain diminishing rapidly. The next day Xenlae called them down to his office again. The pilots had taken to leaving their wings and tails out, it was more comfortable and the men running the ship were quick to leave them alone. They were in Xenlae's office, under his observation. The pilots all had been in their quarters since Kat's mutation, only coming out to carry away whomever had been experimented on. Until they went to Xenlae's office, they didn't realize they had grown taller.

Xenlae inspected each of them, then sent a thought to Kat, "Let us see if these four will handle telepathy." Xenlae laughed out loud, then said," now for the second part of your mutation. Enter the lab please." The doors opened and they went into the lab. Four orderlies directed them to four beds used for CAT scans. Kat was left behind, fretting. "Guys, he is going to do something to you to cause the part of you brain that controls telepathy to open in your brain. Be warned serious discomfort, like sudden, overwhelming voices in your head. I will help you block them once your done." They all nodded and retracted their new appendages and lay down on the beds. Four screens lit up above the beds, showing their brain levels. Another lit up showing Kat's brain levels. The beds retracted in and the radiation started. "Each time the light passes over their heads, another closes part of their minds opens, That is how I received my power little Kat," Xenlae said in her mind, " the accident you had just was pure chance, lucky weren't you?!" he laughed. The beds came back out then and the pilots sat up, faces contorted in a mix of pain and confusion. The levels on the screens had reached Kat's level.

Suddenly an explosion rocked the ship and all 5 pilots felt a familiar mind. They all shouted "Duo" and their wings shot out and their claws extended. Xenlae ran over to a table and grabbed four syringes. "We have to warn Duo, Xenlae has the DNA he injected us with," Heero shouted over the sirens that had started blaring. They nodded and started running down the hall. Almost to the docking bay, they ran into Duo, literally. He stared up at them, then shouted, "Where is the lousy bastard that did this to you?" Kat pointed down the hall and started to say," Duo watch out, he has..," but he had already started running and had his gun pulled.



Duo reached Xenlae's office and ran into the lab. Xenlae stood there, a psychotic smirk on his face. In his hands he held the four syringes with the DNA in them. "If he expects to beat me with those, he is dead wrong, they don't call me the God of Death for nothing," he thought. Duo charged at the captain, who shot out and hit him with one syringe, then another. Duo shot Xenlae just then, wounding the captain's leg. Xenlae dropped to the ground and hit Duo with the last syringes, then collapsed, dead from a second shot to the heart. Duo let out a scream, mentally and physically; all the pilots heard it, and Kat teleported. When Xenlae died, his hold on Kat's powers was released. Duo fell to the floor as Kat teleported into the room. The last thing Duo remembered as he succumbed to the pain was thinking, "I hope that bastard died a painful death."

Kat teleported to Deathscythe, which was in the docking bay, with Duo in her arms. She put the unconscious boy in the cockpit seat and went to her own Gundam. She fired her grappling hooks at his Gundam, then flew out of the ship, towards the New York, which was floating a mile or so away. The other pilots had already gone there. She entered the bay just as the Victor blew up behind them. She set Deathscythe down along with her Sanguis. She jumped from her cockpit, unfurled and flew over to Duo. She got there a split second before the other pilots and opened the door. Inside, Duo was thrashing around, moaning in pain. His wings were already forming, along with his tail and claws. Heero injected him with a tranquilizer he had brought. He lifted him into his arms and flew down to the ground, followed by the others. They all were praying for him to survive this alive.





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