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3 The Preventers: Friends And Enemies
Chapter 1 – A Trick of the Mind
AC 201...
Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre Winner, and Chang Wufei have all become Preventers, on way or another. The five war buddies have gotten closer since the Barton foundation incident in AC 196. The five have stopped many different villains from trying to put an evil plan into motion. One was going to exterminate life with a manmade virus. Another included a MS even more powerful than Wing Zero and the other gundams put together. Other plots included the assassination attempts of Vice Foreign Minister Relena Dorlin. But not even those cases would come close to the one that stood before them now.
Two weeks later...
Duo Maxwell was in the Preventers Visual Library looking up data from the L2 colony in the year AC 180. Everybody was beginning to worry about him. He had been in there for twelve hours straight. No food, no drink, nothing. He had scanned almost everything in the library, trying to find the origin of his existance. He continually watched the massacre of Father Maxwell's church over and over again, fighting back the tears, so he could look for any vital clue. In those days, everything in the colony was watched. People had tracers in them to mark their location. Every building had cameras watching every possible exit. Duo never thought about it, even as he scratched the scar where his tracer had been removed back in the Operation Meteor days. There was a pounding at the door. "Who is it?" he yelled. "Quatre..." the voice on the other side of the wooden door exclaimed. Duo let go a sigh of disgust. Why couldn't people just leave him alone? He told everybody that he would be in the library for a long while. Duo got up from the mahogany desk in the back of the library. The library was two stories high and was about the size of two football fields. Books lined the bookcases that were along all the walls. Windows were placed above them and made a nice college library-like atmosphere. When it came to books, you could find almost anything. Anything from learning about feces to the most complex weapon systems ever made. It was in a word: awesome. Duo opened the door. Duo took a quick glance at the front of the door which read "Preventers Senior Staff Only: ID Required". His head then moved from the door to Quatre, who had a tray with tuna fish sandwiches and a pitcher of lemonade and a glass on it. It was always like Quatre to watch out for other people. "What is it Quatre?" Duo asked. "I thought I'd bring you some lunch. You haven't been out of there in twelve hours!" Quatre exclaimed. "I know. I'm doing some studying. Trying to find out more about me, where I really came from." Duo answered back. "You need any help?" Quatre asked. "No. I'll be fine." Duo said, hoping in his heart that Quatre would just leave him alone for now. "Ok, You need anything, just ask." Quatre said as he handed the tray to Duo and walked off down the corridor. Duo shut the door. "Man, I was tempted to tell him to shut up." Duo thought. He put the tray down on the table next to the door and then sat back down at the desk and typed something into the video computer's search engine. He knew he was so close to finding something. He had been through hours of watching video logs, looking for something he remembered from his past. It was a fire. People were screaming, scrambling to find a way out of the building. It was one clear memory to Duo, as if it was yesterday. It was the first time, to Duo, that death had found him and embraced him. Duo was seven. He was sitting with a lady who was teaching him something. He knew stuff about the colony, but not much because he hadn't really been outside of the complex. The next thing that happened was that an alarm was going off. The teacher had grabbed him and pulled him out of the room. It lead to a hallway that went left and right. The lady had run with him to the right, down the hall to the stairwell. The elevator next to the stairwell door had smoke coming out of it. There was a snapping sound coming from the elevator door followed by a whoosh and then people screaming. The lady had responded "Oh my god! Honey, let's get out of here!" She ran with Duo to the first floor as people began running for their lives down the stairwell. The people in front of Duo and his female guardian were trying to open the first floor door. The lady, Duo's guardian, screamed "NO!!!" as they kicked the door open. The door flew open only letting a wave of fire into the stairwell. The people at the door began screaming as the fire burned them to death. The guardian began to run to the second floor door. Duo noticed that some people were saying prayers, begging to be saved by God. The guardian opened the door to the second floor. Some people followed as she led Duo into a smoke filled corridor. She was running with Duo to the fire escape. A man ran ahead and opened the window, gesturing that the guardian should get out first. She pushed Duo onto the escape. Duo rushed down the ladder and ran to the other side of the street. His guardian began to climb onto the ladder as the whole wall of the building came crashing down onto the street, crushing the woman, his guardian, underneath. Not even a minute afterwards, the rest of the building fell. Duo had stood on the other side of the street, not more than a few feet away from the wall that fell, with a single tear running down his cheek. A beeping sound awoke Duo. He looked at his watch. It was ten after eight. He looked at the video computer screen in front of him. It said, "match found". He used the mouse and clicked on the file that stood in front of him. He sat there for a minute reading the information in front of him. "This is it! My origin, the beginning of my existence. Ok. Let's see. Parents, deceased. Cause of death… no. No," Duo thought. He began to shiver. A cold wind brought goose bumps to his arms. An old friend had returned. The file on the screen in front of him was death, and it had found him again, this time it had brought a new friend to introduce Duo to, Fate.
Heero Yuy was used to alarm clocks. He used them all the time. The only thing was that the ones he owned were in his head. But this morning, his alarm clock buzzed next to him. It was a machine, at least it used to be. Heero was sick of that infernal racket. This time he silenced it with a fist that smashed it into a million pieces. Heero sat up in bed. He had a long day ahead of him. He got up out of bed and put on some jeans over his navy blue silk boxers, then pulled on a white t-shirt followed by a red, unbuttoned, long sleeve shirt. His bedroom was a normal one for people his age: bed, desk, computer, dresser, TV, phone, etc. He had really changed since the war ended. He really talked, smiled, laughed, and joked more often than he used to. The life of a preventer really had its advantages, like a paycheck! Heero's house was in a quiet residential neighborhood. For once, he was living a somewhat normal life. Yeah, he had done secret missions for The Preventers and cheated death many times over, but he was happy, and that's all that mattered. He walked barefoot into his kitchen and looked out the window over the sink. Kids were playing in the yard. He turned on the coffee maker next to the sink. The water began to sizzle as it hit the bottom of the pot. Heero went out to his back porch and sighed. He always loved this view. His house, no matter how ordinary it was, had the best view in the neighborhood. His back porch overlooked his backyard: a cliff with a hundred foot drop to a beach and the ocean. He sat down in his wooden rocking chair and just took in the morning air. This was paradise. He was almost about to dose off to sleep again when the phone on the end table next to him rang. He picked up the phone. "Hello?" he asked. "Good morning, Heero." The voice on the other line said. "What can I do for you Une?" Heero asked. "Well, I don't know how to say this other than to just say it. Duo's missing," she said. Heero stopped rocking in his chair. "What?" he asked. "Heero, Duo's gone. He signed out of library around midnight and he is just gone. He's not home, and his tracking signal was cut off shortly after two this morning. He is GONE." Une said. "Good god. What was he looking at in the library?" he asked. "We're looking into that. The last visible file was about a boarding school fire in AC 180, everyone died in the fire, as to why he was looking at it, we don't know," she said. Heero could hear a man in the background talking to Une. "Heero?" she asked. "Yeah." Heero said. "We found something. I think you should take a look at it." She said. "What is it?" he asked. "We believe we've found Duo." She said. "Well, that's great. How is he?" He said, with a smile, happy that they found his friend. "Heero, he's dead." She said.
To Be Continued…
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3 The Preventers: Friends And Enemies
Chapter 1 – A Trick of the Mind
AC 201...
Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre Winner, and Chang Wufei have all become Preventers, on way or another. The five war buddies have gotten closer since the Barton foundation incident in AC 196. The five have stopped many different villains from trying to put an evil plan into motion. One was going to exterminate life with a manmade virus. Another included a MS even more powerful than Wing Zero and the other gundams put together. Other plots included the assassination attempts of Vice Foreign Minister Relena Dorlin. But not even those cases would come close to the one that stood before them now.
Two weeks later...
Duo Maxwell was in the Preventers Visual Library looking up data from the L2 colony in the year AC 180. Everybody was beginning to worry about him. He had been in there for twelve hours straight. No food, no drink, nothing. He had scanned almost everything in the library, trying to find the origin of his existance. He continually watched the massacre of Father Maxwell's church over and over again, fighting back the tears, so he could look for any vital clue. In those days, everything in the colony was watched. People had tracers in them to mark their location. Every building had cameras watching every possible exit. Duo never thought about it, even as he scratched the scar where his tracer had been removed back in the Operation Meteor days. There was a pounding at the door. "Who is it?" he yelled. "Quatre..." the voice on the other side of the wooden door exclaimed. Duo let go a sigh of disgust. Why couldn't people just leave him alone? He told everybody that he would be in the library for a long while. Duo got up from the mahogany desk in the back of the library. The library was two stories high and was about the size of two football fields. Books lined the bookcases that were along all the walls. Windows were placed above them and made a nice college library-like atmosphere. When it came to books, you could find almost anything. Anything from learning about feces to the most complex weapon systems ever made. It was in a word: awesome. Duo opened the door. Duo took a quick glance at the front of the door which read "Preventers Senior Staff Only: ID Required". His head then moved from the door to Quatre, who had a tray with tuna fish sandwiches and a pitcher of lemonade and a glass on it. It was always like Quatre to watch out for other people. "What is it Quatre?" Duo asked. "I thought I'd bring you some lunch. You haven't been out of there in twelve hours!" Quatre exclaimed. "I know. I'm doing some studying. Trying to find out more about me, where I really came from." Duo answered back. "You need any help?" Quatre asked. "No. I'll be fine." Duo said, hoping in his heart that Quatre would just leave him alone for now. "Ok, You need anything, just ask." Quatre said as he handed the tray to Duo and walked off down the corridor. Duo shut the door. "Man, I was tempted to tell him to shut up." Duo thought. He put the tray down on the table next to the door and then sat back down at the desk and typed something into the video computer's search engine. He knew he was so close to finding something. He had been through hours of watching video logs, looking for something he remembered from his past. It was a fire. People were screaming, scrambling to find a way out of the building. It was one clear memory to Duo, as if it was yesterday. It was the first time, to Duo, that death had found him and embraced him. Duo was seven. He was sitting with a lady who was teaching him something. He knew stuff about the colony, but not much because he hadn't really been outside of the complex. The next thing that happened was that an alarm was going off. The teacher had grabbed him and pulled him out of the room. It lead to a hallway that went left and right. The lady had run with him to the right, down the hall to the stairwell. The elevator next to the stairwell door had smoke coming out of it. There was a snapping sound coming from the elevator door followed by a whoosh and then people screaming. The lady had responded "Oh my god! Honey, let's get out of here!" She ran with Duo to the first floor as people began running for their lives down the stairwell. The people in front of Duo and his female guardian were trying to open the first floor door. The lady, Duo's guardian, screamed "NO!!!" as they kicked the door open. The door flew open only letting a wave of fire into the stairwell. The people at the door began screaming as the fire burned them to death. The guardian began to run to the second floor door. Duo noticed that some people were saying prayers, begging to be saved by God. The guardian opened the door to the second floor. Some people followed as she led Duo into a smoke filled corridor. She was running with Duo to the fire escape. A man ran ahead and opened the window, gesturing that the guardian should get out first. She pushed Duo onto the escape. Duo rushed down the ladder and ran to the other side of the street. His guardian began to climb onto the ladder as the whole wall of the building came crashing down onto the street, crushing the woman, his guardian, underneath. Not even a minute afterwards, the rest of the building fell. Duo had stood on the other side of the street, not more than a few feet away from the wall that fell, with a single tear running down his cheek. A beeping sound awoke Duo. He looked at his watch. It was ten after eight. He looked at the video computer screen in front of him. It said, "match found". He used the mouse and clicked on the file that stood in front of him. He sat there for a minute reading the information in front of him. "This is it! My origin, the beginning of my existence. Ok. Let's see. Parents, deceased. Cause of death… no. No," Duo thought. He began to shiver. A cold wind brought goose bumps to his arms. An old friend had returned. The file on the screen in front of him was death, and it had found him again, this time it had brought a new friend to introduce Duo to, Fate.
Heero Yuy was used to alarm clocks. He used them all the time. The only thing was that the ones he owned were in his head. But this morning, his alarm clock buzzed next to him. It was a machine, at least it used to be. Heero was sick of that infernal racket. This time he silenced it with a fist that smashed it into a million pieces. Heero sat up in bed. He had a long day ahead of him. He got up out of bed and put on some jeans over his navy blue silk boxers, then pulled on a white t-shirt followed by a red, unbuttoned, long sleeve shirt. His bedroom was a normal one for people his age: bed, desk, computer, dresser, TV, phone, etc. He had really changed since the war ended. He really talked, smiled, laughed, and joked more often than he used to. The life of a preventer really had its advantages, like a paycheck! Heero's house was in a quiet residential neighborhood. For once, he was living a somewhat normal life. Yeah, he had done secret missions for The Preventers and cheated death many times over, but he was happy, and that's all that mattered. He walked barefoot into his kitchen and looked out the window over the sink. Kids were playing in the yard. He turned on the coffee maker next to the sink. The water began to sizzle as it hit the bottom of the pot. Heero went out to his back porch and sighed. He always loved this view. His house, no matter how ordinary it was, had the best view in the neighborhood. His back porch overlooked his backyard: a cliff with a hundred foot drop to a beach and the ocean. He sat down in his wooden rocking chair and just took in the morning air. This was paradise. He was almost about to dose off to sleep again when the phone on the end table next to him rang. He picked up the phone. "Hello?" he asked. "Good morning, Heero." The voice on the other line said. "What can I do for you Une?" Heero asked. "Well, I don't know how to say this other than to just say it. Duo's missing," she said. Heero stopped rocking in his chair. "What?" he asked. "Heero, Duo's gone. He signed out of library around midnight and he is just gone. He's not home, and his tracking signal was cut off shortly after two this morning. He is GONE." Une said. "Good god. What was he looking at in the library?" he asked. "We're looking into that. The last visible file was about a boarding school fire in AC 180, everyone died in the fire, as to why he was looking at it, we don't know," she said. Heero could hear a man in the background talking to Une. "Heero?" she asked. "Yeah." Heero said. "We found something. I think you should take a look at it." She said. "What is it?" he asked. "We believe we've found Duo." She said. "Well, that's great. How is he?" He said, with a smile, happy that they found his friend. "Heero, he's dead." She said.
To Be Continued…