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Perfect Soldiers

Chapter 5 'Nothing is the same"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Hospital ~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

Relena opened her heavy lids and took in her surroundings. Something inside her was begging to scream but she managed to bite her lip to suppress it as she tried to remember why she was so tired and why… "Heero." The world escaped her mouth like it explained everything. She saw him clutching his head, screaming, the man, Mace, Sarah. All of it was swimming around in her confused brain. So much that didn't make any sense. As the reality dawned on her she sat bolt up right in her bed and almost screamed. "NO!" Then she felt the hands on her pushing her back down, back onto the bed but she didn't want to stay down she had to help Heero. Heero he was going to take him.
"Relena, calm down. It's over. Calm down."

Relena knew the voice. It was her brother. Her muscles relaxed under his hold and she blinked trying to focus and saw him standing over her his hands pressing her back into the mattress. Her brother, a bed, hospital. As if to explain her brain produced an image of her flying across the conference room and hitting head first into the table. "What…happened?"

Zechs frowned as he ran his hand over his little sister's hair smoothing it out of her eyes. He would always see her as a little girl no matter what and he worried about her so much. "They took him Relena. I'm sorry. We're looking."

Relena went still as the news hit her. "Who…the man…Sarah's brother?"

"Sarah?" Zechs asked his hands leaving there restraining position and sinking his weight into the chair beside her bed. Is that who the girl in there with you was?"

Relena nodded. "How is she. I saw… I saw what he did to her."

"Still unconscious and in custody. We didn't know who she was and we couldn't find any records on her."

"She's…her brother he's the one who took Heero…He's Troy…" All of her thoughts came out in one jumbled mess and Relena cleared her throat. "She knows why they took Heero. She knows everything. We have to stop them before they succeed."

Zechs shook his head. "Relena you've been out for a week. We haven't heard anything about them. You just woke up and Sarah, as you call her, hasn't moved a muscle. We're at a dead end. We don't know where to go from here."

Relena went pale as he tried to lift herself but found herself too weak this time to do it. "No, it can't be. We don't have time, dragon they'll…you have to find him."

"What are you talking about. You're babbling." Zechs gripped her hand.

"She told me." Relena whispered. She told me everything. "Please you have to believe me."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

"How did the operation go?" Smith asked as he pushed his way through the doors as soon as the lights over head went off indicating that it was safe for him to enter.

Hammond removed his blood covered gloves and smiled. "It went perfectly. Sense the last of his memory has been erased we should have no problems with him. The chip works perfectly. I already tested it."

Smith shook his head. "I can't believe we pulled this off. Now we have three assassins on our side. Nothing can stop us from building our army."

Hammond nodded as he removed his blood stained smock and threw it in the nearby trash can. His gloves landed in the heap and he looked back toward the room where the once braid welding pilot slept for the time being. "All we have to do is get rid of the others, like Mitchell and his crew. They're of no use to us now. Nothing can stop these guys and the defects need to be taken care of."

Smith nodded. "I suppose you're right. I'll get Mace and Heero to deal with them."

"Sure whatever. You can ever wait until the little boy here can join them." Hammond snickered. "Just as long as it gets done."

Part ii 'I won't break… We refuse to give in to you…'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Colony a week earlier ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Heero opened his eyes his throat was dry and his body ached and his head pounded. He still remembered the burning that had run through him when that girl had mentioned him training. Why had that happened? What connection did she have to him and why did she look so familiar?

"So you're awake. It's about time. I was beginning to think they threw me a corpse."

Heero blinked recognizing the voice immediately. "Duo?"

"The one and only."

Heero pulled himself to a sitting position. "Where are we?"

Duo came out of the shadows his arms crossed over his chest. His face smeared with dirt and his hair less than kept. "No idea, but glad you decided to wake up know maybe they'll let you have some fun as well."

"What are you talking about?" Heero asked confusion all over his face. "How did I get here?"

"I'm sure about that buddy, but I do know that you've been out for about a day and you're lucky I remember you at all."

"I don't understand…"

Duo came further into the light showing the side of his head to Heero. It was shaved and stitches decorated his scalp. "Real trendy isn't it?"

"What.." Heero was having a brain overload with what has happening. It was too much all at once.

"They're erasing my memory and just for kicks they're doing it piece by piece. Maybe that way they have more fun. This morning I knew where I came from and now I can't remember anything past meeting up with Dr. O. I wrote a little on the floor with a piece of chalk. I scrawled a name." Duo lifted his pleading violet eyes to Heero and shook his head. "Maybe you can tell me who she is. I know she's important. I know she means something, but I can't remember what and it's killing me."

"What's the name?" Heero asked swallowing hard.

"Hilde. Who is she Heero and why do I feel as if I'm betraying someone when I can't remember her name." Duo reached out and grabbed hold of Heero's shoulder and pulled him closer. "Tell me who she is."

"Your…she's your…wife." Heero told him unsure of how to handle the situation. Nothing made sense. He was so confused.

"Wife, I'm married." Duo let a cry escape his throat as he turned violently from Heero and back to face the darkness. "I've got to get out of here. They're going to take all of it Heero all of it and make me one of them."

"One of who?"

"One of their 'perfect soldiers'." Duo spat bitterly as he sat back on his thighs and hung his head. "I can't remember anything. I don't…"

Heero came to his feet trying his best to take stock of his surrounding but it was hard to in the darkness. There were medical tables all around him and empty bottles and vials and just by scanning Heero knew that there was no exit doors that he would be able to break through. If there were Duo would have found them long ago.

"So I see you're awake, Troy. Finally decided to join us did you."

Heero turned slowly trying to catch the source of the voice but it was everywhere, an intercom.

"Do you like what we're doing to your friend. Not quite as good as the job they did on you Yuy, but it serves its purpose."

"As soon as I get out of here you're going to pay." Heero spat his words dripping with venom.

"Big words for one who cannot do a thing."

Heero clenched his fists at his sides and glared at the walls. "Coward! You won't even show us your face. Are you that afraid of us!"

"Once again threats with no chance of ever being carried out. We take the precautions we have to because it's the smart thing to do. Whether we're cowards or not has nothing to do with it."

"Why have you brought me here. What do you want with the Gundam Pilots?" Heero looked around the room hoping to determine where the sound was coming from, but he couldn't pin point it. It was coming from all over.

"We aren't after the Gundam Pilots!" The voice laughed. "We are only after you."

"Then why did you take him. Why did you take Duo too."

"Easy, we were looking for you Troy and he was the only other one that could have been you."

"Why didn't you let him go?"

"Because we could use him. You see we can use his strengths and all we had to do to accomplish that was destroy his weaknesses. That is why we are erasing his memory. You Troy are who we've been after."

"Why do you keep calling me Troy?" Heero half screamed in reply. "I have no name. That's not my name."

"But it is Heero."

Heero turned from the ceiling and back toward the floor. "They told me everything. They told me that you and the guy who kidnapped me were the only ones left of your kind. Dragon assassins. You were their project and they came back for you."

"I don't remember this. This never happened." Heero growled as he remembered the searing pain he had experienced last time he'd thought about it.

Duo sighed. "It doesn't matter. I won't remember any of it tomorrow. Heck if I'm luck they'll finish their job tonight and I'll never remember any of this. That way I can forget that I forgot who my wife was. That I can't remember my own wedding that I might have a child, that I have names and face swirling around in my head with no names to match them with!" Duo screamed and wrapped his hands around his skull.

Heero watched him forgetting about the man listening in on them and went to his friend felling an odd sense wash over him as he watched his partner, the God of Death break down. He kneeled in front of Duo unsure of what to do. Should he touch him tell him that it was going to be all right. He was never any good with his feelings and right now things were in overload.

"I don't want to be like him." Duo whimpered. "His eyes have no soul. I don't want to be like that."

Heero shook his head and grabbed hold of Duo's hands pulling them away from his face. "We'll get your memory back as soon as we beat these assholes. You'll go back to your wife and one day you'll have lots of kids…all right, but right now I need you back with me. Without you we can't break out of here. I need you to help me."

Duo's violet eyes glistened with unshed tears as he looked at Heero. His face hardened for a moment and he let a lopsided almost chaotic grin cross his face. "I suppose the God of Death shouldn't give up so easily."

"Right." Heero mumbled as he fell to the ground beside his friend just letting himself breath. "We'll get out of here. We'll get you back to Hilde and I'll make sure they pay for this."

"What if what they tell me is true and your one of them. As soon as they activate you Heero we have no chance of getting out. You won't remember any of it and I'll be nothing, an empty shell with no past."

Heero glanced at his arm were there was a scar burned into his flesh. What if it was true and he was some sort of 'Dragon warrior'. What if the girl had been telling the truth and Relena? Oh God what if something had happened to her. He had to find out the truth and then he would make them pay for all of it.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Hospital

Quatre opened his eyes and groaned. He was surprised he wasn't dead. After the encounter he'd had with the man carrying Heero he thought for sure he would be a goner yet he was still alive despite the burning in his chest he was very much still alive. He knew instantly that he was in a hospital. He had seen them one too many times in his part time position at the Preventers. Groaning, Quatre pulled himself to his feet and went in search of his clothes that were probably in the closet. He was right and began pulling them on as he ignored the lacerating pain running through his body with each movement. He had just pulled on his pants when the door opened and Sally walked in.

"I'm glad you're awake Quatre but I really don't think you should be up yet. You took some pretty bad hits back there." She frowned solemnly as he pulled on his shirt an uncharacteristic smile gracing his lips.

"Did they get away?"

Sally nodded at him sorry she had to be the one to break the news to him. She knew for a fact that he would blame himself. He had after all been down there one of the last people to see the assassin besides Trowa. "Yeah they got away, but it wasn't your fault." She added quickly. "Trowa tried to stop him but he couldn't"

Quatre frowned. "Yeah…how is Relena and that other girl? Has there been any word at all?"

"Relena is out. I don't know when she'll wake up. She took a pretty hard hit and the other girl was beaten within an inch of her life. She'll be lucky if she lives through another night."

"How about Heero and Duo? Do we know anything else about them?" Quatre asked moving toward her as he winced with each step.

"Nothing." She sighed. "Une, Noin, and I are headed to Asia this afternoon, but the rest of you guys are on lockdown. You and Trowa aren't allowed to leave this hospital for any reason. Wufie and Zechs are under protective custody. We're not taking any chances."

Quatre shook his head. "I can't sit around here and do nothing."

Sally shook her head. "Same thing Wufie said except yours was a lot friendlier." She smiled. "Just think of it as a vacation for right now and don't blame yourself as I know you are already doing. It's not your fault and we'll have a lead sooner or later."

"Yeah." Quatre mumbled. "I hope so."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`` Asia twenty miles from desired destination

As soon as the plane touched down in Asia Sally knew that it was going to be difficult to get anything out of the unwilling government. They weren't too proud of the incident that had happened a few years ago. Apparently a few of the residents of the burned building were identified. They were almost all kidnapped children, some of which had been missing for years. It had made them look really bad and now that they knew the Preventers were investigating what had been their most embarrassing slip up there were very reluctant to let anyone into the facility.

Lady Une slammed her fist onto the counter and turned around her eyes blazing with contempt. "I can't believe that there isn't a car in the entire city that we can rent! Don't you find it odd that not one taxi will stop for us!"

Sally frowned. "I told you this was going to be hard. We stumbled onto something they don't want to talk about. They're not too happy that we're digging it up after so many years."

Noin, who appeared to be the most calm of the group sat in a chair in the rent o car and rolled her neck cracking her back and turned her wrists. "Well I hope you guys are in shape because it looks like we have a long walk ahead of us."

Une frowned. "Very funny." She grumbled her temper getting the better of her as she picked up he bag and slung it over her shoulder. "Real funny. I'm not supposed to be doing this. I'm not a field agent. I work in an office, behind a desk….grrr."

"Just think of it as a camping trip." Noin replied as she followed her superior out the door and into the street.

Sally rolled her eyes and watched as the steamed Lady left the building and grabbed Noin's arm as they walked out. "Did you really have to do that. You know she's mad."

"It doesn't matter whatever we would have said would have pushed her over the edge. We're suffering from major jet lag, we're hungry tired, and can't get any corporation. The out burst would have happened no matter what had come out of my mouth."

"I guess you're right, but one good thing comes out of this trek."

"What's that?" Noin asked arching any eyebrow.

"We can go over these papers. I have some information on a couple of the missing children during this time." Sally pulled a folded piece of paper out of her pocket. "It seems that a family in Florida had two of her children returned one who had been missing for three months the other had been missing for three years."

"Where did they come from and how did they escape?"

"There was a police report filed and apparently there was a third child with them at the time they returned home, but he ran. The kids reported his name as being Troy Mathers. They never found him again, but the girl and boy gave quite an odd story to the police the first time they were questioned. Later it did change, but they claimed that someone had been training them to kill."

"When did you find this out!" Noin gasped as he grabbed Sally and have dragged her toward Lady Une. "Maybe if you had told her this before we left she wouldn't think this was such a waste."

"Get a grip Lu. I just found this an hour ago while you guys were looking for a car. This was the first chance I had to tell you." Sally pulled away from Noin and continued at the fast pace by herself.

~~~~~~~~` three hours later

Lady Une pushed her shoulder length brown hair out of her face and shook her head as she grabbed a hair band from around her wrist and pulled it out of her face. It was sweltering out and she was about to die from the heat. "So your telling me that there was a massive cover up, I mean bigger than we originally thought. Whoever these people were they were kidnapping children and using them for experiments. Did the government inform the families that their children where found here?"

Sally pulled a bottle of water out of her bag and put one hand in the middle of her back as she stretched backwards and sighed. "Well they were from all over the world. Some of them had been missing for more than twelve years. Either they felt there silence was less of a burden or they were horribly ashamed."

"I'm betting on ashamed." Noin vouched as she pushed her hair out of her face put her hand in front of her eyes so she could gaze into the distance. "I think I see something." She paused and pointed. "Over there I think it's a fence."

"I don't care what it is." Une replied, "But I'm taking a rest whether we're there or not."

Sally shrugged. "I'm hoping we're hear because other wise we might have to camp out. It's probably past mid day."

Lady Une groaned. "I hope not." With that said she moved from the side of the road into the woods where the very tip of a fence was visible. She heard Noin and Sally coming up behind her as she dropped her bag on the ground at her feet and breathed in a lengthy sigh. "Good God this place is huge." Une felt a hand on her shoulder and looked to see Sally beside her.

"Yeah, and it looks like we're in the right place."

Before them lay the skeleton of what had once been a massive research facility. What was left of the high walls were burned black and the ground around it was littered with debris. The ground was covered in green grass, but by the bright hue of it you could tell it had once been scorched black.

"You'd think they'd have this place destroyed." Noin breathed as she dropped her bags and walked toward the rickety fence. "Especially if they were trying to hide something."

"Perhaps they're still learning from it." Sally ventured.

All three left their bags and walked through the gap in the fence and entered the facility. Their feet stepped over a large pile of rocks covered mostly by grass and moss as they made their way across. No one noticed the significance of it. Sally pulled out her camera and began snapping pictures. The sight was like something out of a Sci fi movie.

"You think we can get inside?"

Noin looked across the field. "You think they have this place being watched?"

"We most certainly do."

All three woman turned around their hands on their hips were their guns were stored. Before them stood three heavily armed men.

"Look we just got lost that's all." Noin started as she began reaching into her pocket. "All we want to do is leave. I'm just going to show you my driver's license. We're not even from here. We just took a wrong turn."

"Don't even move." The man closets to them demanded his hand tightening on the gun and his eyes narrowing. "We know who you are, Preventers, and you're coming with us."

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