Jammin

Part 3

Duo woke up at 2:00PM and cursed himself for sleeping in. "Oi, Heero, why didn't you wake me up?", he said and looked around the apartment while tying his hair back. As he survied the room, he noticed Heero wasn't there and his laptop was missing. He got up from the bed and walked over to Heero's desk. It had a note written in Heero's usual code:

Fbasket, ot pty, hf.

- Y

The code was very basic, for Heero's standards. Duo burned the paper and got dressed quickly. "So he went out shopping and told me to go have fun at the party tonight... is he getting soft?!", he said lightly and laughed as he grabbed Shimegami and ran to the hideout to practice.

***

Heero was in an alley, outside of the shopping center that had the secret compartment and the nukes. He was analyzing the area with his laptop and sending the data to the Gundam Pilots. 'We need backup if the raid is going to go smoothly. If they set the nukes off..... I don't know if I could get all the timers... if they had timers... off in time. I must be getting soft hanging around that baka.' There was no wind that night and he saw some dust move with feet accompanying it. Drawing his gun, Heero twisted around, still kneeling, to face his opponents. "Heero, will take it from here," a calm voice said as Heero's eyes fixed on the person. The man hand was outstretched to help him up.

He took the man's hand and said, "Wufei, Trowa, when did you guys get here?"

"Not here.. come with us..", Wufei said and motioned to an empty and broken down apartment complex. The three pilots went to the fourth floor, where the electricity still worked. "Yuy, this is our mission for now. The scientists have ordered you to fall back for a few days. Get some rest and keep the baka under control.", Wufei smiled slightly on the last part and leaned against the wall.

Heero moved towards the doorway and his eyes narrowed. "Naze. I'm still in top shape and I have not received any messages."

Trowa sighed and turned to his fellow pilot. "Doctor J was executed this morning along with some other colony rebels. The other Doctors told us to inform you and keep you as backup. Take a break for a while Heero, Maxwell too. We all formulae a plan in a few days. Until then, ja ne," Trowa said and followed Wufei out the doorway and onto the street before disappearing into the shadows.

Heero shook his head. 'I don't like this. I must inform Duo.' He exited the building and started running when some men came out of the alley. They looked like renegade soldiers from the army. Both men had already drawn their guns. "There he is! The kid from yesterday!", one yelled and they started firing. 'One thing after another.' Heero hid behind some wooden planks and shot at the men. They were down with two bullets each. Removing the bullets from their bodies quickly, Heero ran off towards the apartment. 'This doesn't make any sense. I need to check on J's last files.'

***

Duo had been setting up with Greg and the others for a few hours now and it was getting close to the designated time. "Oi! Greg, I have a new song I'd like to sing this time. Actually.. I have a bunch of new ones. Do you think we could fit one or two in?", Duo said and wiped the sweat from his brow. Greg walked over and took the song sheets from Duo's hands.

Greg was smiling as he looked the songs over. "Yeah Duo, I think we can do a few of these. You might want to check in with your partner first. After all its going to be a long night." Duo hid his surprise. 'How did Greg know about Heero..... This is definitely odd. I don't remember saying anything....'

He walked back over to Shimegami and packed her bag in the bag. "Alright Greg. You're right. Ja ne!", he said quickly and dashed back to the apartment. Duo knew he was being quite flighty the past couple of days, but he was getting some pretty bad auras from this mission. It wasn't like he was super-psychic or anything like that. But since the church crisis of his childhood, he could always sense when some bad stuff would go down. This mission had 'bad' written all over it when he first saw it in his gundam.

It had been sent right after a long undercover mission on L3. He was absolutely exhausted and just plopped into Deathscythe to check the security cameras he had setup in the area. Deathscythe's screen blipped and then Dr. G was relaying avoice message to him.

'Abort current mission. Go to L2 and find Pilot 01. There have been rumors of a strange undercover operation. We don't think its OZ though. Its your mission to find out and assasinate the leaders of this operation with the help of Pilot 01.'

Even though it seemed like a basic mission status report, Duo couldn't help but shiver. The up side was that he would be with Heero on this mission. Of course, he accepted it and headed for L2 immediately. Unfortunately, his nightmare had returned, full force, the first night he was back on L2. That was always a very bad sign. "I hope my mind is just playing with me," he thought out loud, and tried to brush all the bad feelings off as he continued to run.