Chapter 2: A New Threat With Old Intentions
"Damn what a mess." Said Duo as he stood on the roof with the others looking at all the destruction.
"Hey lummox! Stop daydreaming and get over here and listen." Yelled Heero over to Duo who flipped around.
"I wasn't daydreaming and I don't care about anything but who it is that is going against us and why they stole my gundum."
"Well if you would listen then you would know!" Yelled Heero. Duo shook his head as he sat down and listened.
The smell of blood was thick in the air and bodies were laying everywhere. Some were shot, some were stabbed, and some looked like they were clawed. Vincent Hayes step over the bodies as he loaded his gun. Vincent was sickened of this place but did not let it show. Just as long as after words he got paid for his work he did not mind. This place that he was in used to test the next generation soldiers. Most did not survive and when it was supposedly destroyed the bodies were left in this area. Vincent step over the bodies with a deadly ease that showed he had done it before. He was searching for two things: A disk that contained all the training procedures and a certain body.
Vincent came to a metal door that was a crack open. He only hesitated for a second as he looked back at the carpet of bodies behind him. He just wanted to get this done. He stuck his gun in and then poked his head through the crack making sure nothing was in there. He opened the door all the way and went into a room where computers were beeping everywhere and it seemed that this part of the secret base was still intact. Vincent walked over to a desk that had a disk on it. He picked it up and read Base: "Tora 3"
Disk space contains: "Training"
Objective: "Make an ultimate soldier for OZ."
"So this is OZ's little secret that supposedly died when OZ fell." He said to himself, as he looked up at a tank that glowed green. Inside was the one soldier that was never born. The one that supposedly was "Perfect".
"So let me get this straight OZ was actually just a small company made to hide a larger one?" Said Duo aloud shaking his head.
"Yes and it seems that not even the highest officials knew about it." Said Heero scanning everyone in front of him and their reaction.
"I get it." Said Trowa plainly "OZ was just the part that would give them the weapons and the power while the main company supplied the workers and the money."
"Yes that is what it looks like." Said Heero aloud staring at Trowa
"Damn cowards," Said Wufei making everyone turn and look at him as he frowned "hiding behind a shield so they don't have to die."
"Wu-man if you had not just noticed me and Heero just saved your butt so don't get cocky." Said Duo with as straight of face he could have. Wufei did not defend himself and instead just shut his mouth.
"Listen I know were there base is and I have a plan." Said Quatra as a he spread out blueprints of a base in front of everyone.
The cold, long corridor made Arigon's footsteps echo as he walked on the metal. "Damn gundum pilots I swear I will kill them." Mumbled Arigon to himself as he walked down the corridor that led to the briefing room. The door slid open when Arigon got close enough and he stepped in.
"This had better be good Vincent, I don't have time for people like you." Said Arigon turning to the mercenary who sat at the briefing table with his feet up on the desk and his hands polishing his gun. Vincent seemed to instead of taking the remark as an insult smirked and got up.
"I found your information and the person you wanted." Said Vincent staring into Arigon's cold eyes.
"You found it still intact I presume?" Asked Arigon with out much surprise.
"Yea, now were is my money?" Asked Vincent just as plainly. Vincent had worked with men like this before they did not care about you or even how you did it just as long as you did the job.
"Were is my prize?" Asked Arigon in a mocking tone
"The lab people have it." Answered Vincent now starting to grind his teeth.
"Fine, Your money is in the room we let you sleep in." Said Arigon as Vincent just stared and then finally broke the stare and left but just before he did he said
"I am gone after I get my money," He paused for a second and smiled to himself, "I can't waste my time with people like you." Vincent then left the room as Arigon stood staring into the air just smiling.
"Neither can I Vincent and we will meet again." Said Arigon out loud as he turned and left the room.
The wind blew making Duo's braided brown hair sway. The sun was just coming up over the mountains that were so far away. Duo needed time to think so he thought the roof would be a nice quit place. He thought that his fighting days were over but after a long period of time not fighting he had noticed that he was not actually living. It occurred to him today that when he fought he came alive. He loved the heat and intensity of a battle. The danger but what kind of scared him was the thing he loved the most…the killing. Duo heard a sound on the stairs behind and he did not even flip around to confront Quatra. "Duo what is the God of Death doing on the roof of a base staring at nothing?" Said Quatra playful but Duo cringed at the name.
"I need time to think Quatra," Said Duo as he turned to the young blonde. "Do get a thrill out of fighting."
"Well, yes we all do." Said Quatra staring into Duo's brown eyes as he stared back into his blue ones.
"No I mean like the best thrill ever, like you have been reborn or are at the height of your life." Said Duo, as Quatra seemed to be taken off guard.
"Duo what are you trying to ask me?" Asked Quatra he walked closer to Duo
"Do you get a thrill out of killing?" Asked Duo as Quatra looked away.
"I used to but then with what happened to Trowa I…" Quatra's voiced trailed of from there and he went and sat down on one of the chairs that were there. Duo walked over and sat in a chair next to Quatra.
"Listen Quatra we are all the same, we all love to kill even though when most of us think of it we deny it but it is true." Said Duo as Quatra shook his head.
"No!" Yelled Quatra as he stood up "I despise killing people but I have to so I can save other people."
"Quatra why did you even come up here in the first place?" Asked Duo roughly
"I also need to think sometimes to you know." Said Quatra defensively.
"Fine then I am gone, you can think all by yourself." Yelled Duo as he got up and stormed down the stairs.
"The attack on Tora 2 will not go without consequences." Yelled out a man with black hair and a white mustache. "I will not let it go unnoticed." Finished the man as the troops looked on without so much as a squirm unless they were ordered to. "We will avenge the death of the people at Tora 2," The man continued looking over the crowd "now be ready on a moments notice for an attack on the Gundum Pilots because we will bring justice for this outrage." The speech was then followed by one very loud unison of "Yes Sir." That echoed through the air. The man walked off of his podium and smiled as the sound of hands clapping roared through the crowd. The man walked off of the stage and down to a limousine that sat waiting.
"Sir did it go well." Asked a Butler as he opened the door
"Yes my plan worked perfectly." "Now that stage 1 and 2 is done stage 3 is my next stop." Said Talizar who barley looked at the Butler beside him.
"Yes, Mr. Vincent Hayes is leaving Aragon's main ship right now." Said the Butler just before he closed the door of the limousine.
"Good, then take me to my mansion so I can be there when he gets there and then I can see if he did a good job with my son Aragon." Said Talizar as the car started to move.
Vincent's brown hair barley moved as he walked down the corridor to his ship "The Silent Wolf". His ship was his pride but there was one thing that he liked a little bit more than his ship, his money. Vincent knew that this job was tricky but would get him lots of money in the end. He was playing two sides and was hoping not to get caught. His life had been full of jobs but few had been like this. These types of jobs showed him how corrupt father and son's can be when they hunger for power. Vincent saw his black ship ahead of him and broke out into a jog after seeing it was all ready to go. He got in and put on the thrusters as the huge docking bay door opened up into the vast wasteland of space.
Duo sat in Deathscythe as he checked all of the components and systems. Armor was at full and so were his weapons. The job at hand would only need Trowa for now but if things got bad all the rest would have to pull him out which would not be easy. Trowa was now going by the name Jake Barton and was a high ranking captain from Tora 2 who was being transferred to the new Tora X-2 base that supposedly was just a safe house for dismantled weapons when really it was another big base housing, something big and dangerous and Trowa was the one who had to try and find out what that thing is.
Duo had confidence in Trowa since he had done this stuff before but these guys were good and if anything happened Duo was ready to pull his buddy out. Trowa was practicing his part quit nicely. He could do anything you asked him to do without making it look weird or suspicious. Duo sometimes wished he could do that. Ever since the night on the rooftop he couldn't look Quatra straight in the eye.
Duo leaned back in his chair as the computer system ran a check on individual databases and information containing such things as previous battle plans and methods. Duo sighed aloud just as Heero walked in.
"Something has been bugging you lately, what is it?" asked Heero plainly
"Hmm, funny you notice other peoples feelings." Said Duo smirking
"I am serious Duo, tell me." Said Heero still keeping calm
"You are always serious." Said Duo putting on a straight face
"Duo." Said Heero dropping his voice to a growl
"Its nothing I have just been thinking." Said Duo leaning back in his chair so he could not look straight into Heero's eyes.
"Duo, I don't need you doing anything foolish if we have to fight so it had better be nothing that will affect your performance on the battlefield." Said Heero just before he left leaving Duo sitting there thinking.
Trowa sat on the shuttle ship thinking. He was not worried about the job at hand but he was kind of worried about what he would find. If he got caught they might have to blow the whole colony and he was almost positive that there would be innocent people there as well as officers. Trowa looked out the little window to see the endless wasteland of space. Trowa also saw a ship in the far distances. It was a mercenaries ship because it was black and the only way you could see it is by its chrome engines. "What would a mercenary be coming here for?" Asked Trowa silently as he sat back into his seat and closed his eyes so he could think.
Vincent could see that he was close to the colony that held Talizar's mansion and his new Tora X-2 base. Vincent could also see the great big white transport ship that was probably sending new supplies as well as new troops. Vincent remembered when he was first on one of those. It had been long ago when he was still a young soldier. His life was deprived of a family and he wanted to go into the military so he could have friends to make up for that. He was met instead with cold hostility by his fellow men and later became the best out of all of them. Sad part is though most of them are now dead because of him. Vincent sat back in his seat as he thought about his early days. It would take another half hour until he reached the base so he figured he would think and allow himself to drift into a dreamless sleep.
Trowa barley felt the shudder of the ship as it docked. Trowa was the first to stand up out of all the rest and for a good reason too. He was the highest commanding officer in the ship. Trowa walked with the ease of a high commanding officer. Everyone around him waited for his command. It was a great pride to be a high officer and Trowa hated it. No one person can control the mission or lives of other people. That is what Trowa thought at least.
The ships doors opened with a small hissing sound just as Trowa walked up to it. Before Trowa left the ship he looked over to every troop. Most looked young, very young. Trowa would hate to have to blow this place up but if he had to it would not hurt him too much. Trowa stepped out of the ship silently as he saw the huge docking bay full of people running from one end of the bay to the next. He also saw robots taking supplies out of the different white ships like the one he had ridden in. The whole place was in an uproar and it seemed that only his ship carried people.
Zechs sat in the control room. He stared at all the panels as he thought about what had happened in the past and what could happen later. "Hey Zechs." yelled Duo from the door. Milliardo hated that name; it brought back to many painful memories. He flipped around and confronted Duo, as he said, "Never call me that again." "I want to be called by my real name from now on."
"Okay fine, but what are you doing in here all alone?" Asked Duo cocking an eyebrow up in suspicion.
"Just thinking." Said Milliardo looking away.
"Hmm… well I wont bother you" Said Duo with some concern on his face until he perked up and said "Well I have some of my own business to attend to myself."
"Ya see you." Said Milliardo turning towards the screen again as Duo left the room.
Aragon hated the rank smell of the labs. It was too bad that they couldn't work on something with a better smell. "Well, is the "soldier" in good condition?" Aragon half-asked and half-demanded.
"Yes, to a point. It will take at least a month to reconstruct part of its brain." Said the scientist that was looking over the body in front of him.
"We don't have a month." Said Aragon sternly as the Scientist craned his head so he could look at Aragon
"I don't think we have a choice sir." Said the Scientist trying his best not to sound impatient.
"Well my good "friend" then what part of the brain must be reconstructed." Said Aragon sounding very hostile.
"The most crucial part." Said the scientist smiling as he looked back at the body "The part that will make him able to think without remorse or feeling, the part that will make him immune to all emotions and will make him a cold blooded killer."
"Then I will give you three weeks." Said Aragon ignoring the glance that the scientist gave him. "If you fail then I will get a different chief scientist to do it."
"Yes sir, it will be done in three weeks sir." Said the scientist straightening up and saluting.
"Good" Said Aragon leaving the room as the scientist ran to his assistants yelling out directions and doses of some chemicals. "Now I will overstep my father and I shall rule the family position as the leader of Oblivion." Said Aragon out loud smiling as he walked down the cold metal catwalk to the main part of his ship that he so lovingly named the "Executioner".
"Damn what a mess." Said Duo as he stood on the roof with the others looking at all the destruction.
"Hey lummox! Stop daydreaming and get over here and listen." Yelled Heero over to Duo who flipped around.
"I wasn't daydreaming and I don't care about anything but who it is that is going against us and why they stole my gundum."
"Well if you would listen then you would know!" Yelled Heero. Duo shook his head as he sat down and listened.
The smell of blood was thick in the air and bodies were laying everywhere. Some were shot, some were stabbed, and some looked like they were clawed. Vincent Hayes step over the bodies as he loaded his gun. Vincent was sickened of this place but did not let it show. Just as long as after words he got paid for his work he did not mind. This place that he was in used to test the next generation soldiers. Most did not survive and when it was supposedly destroyed the bodies were left in this area. Vincent step over the bodies with a deadly ease that showed he had done it before. He was searching for two things: A disk that contained all the training procedures and a certain body.
Vincent came to a metal door that was a crack open. He only hesitated for a second as he looked back at the carpet of bodies behind him. He just wanted to get this done. He stuck his gun in and then poked his head through the crack making sure nothing was in there. He opened the door all the way and went into a room where computers were beeping everywhere and it seemed that this part of the secret base was still intact. Vincent walked over to a desk that had a disk on it. He picked it up and read Base: "Tora 3"
Disk space contains: "Training"
Objective: "Make an ultimate soldier for OZ."
"So this is OZ's little secret that supposedly died when OZ fell." He said to himself, as he looked up at a tank that glowed green. Inside was the one soldier that was never born. The one that supposedly was "Perfect".
"So let me get this straight OZ was actually just a small company made to hide a larger one?" Said Duo aloud shaking his head.
"Yes and it seems that not even the highest officials knew about it." Said Heero scanning everyone in front of him and their reaction.
"I get it." Said Trowa plainly "OZ was just the part that would give them the weapons and the power while the main company supplied the workers and the money."
"Yes that is what it looks like." Said Heero aloud staring at Trowa
"Damn cowards," Said Wufei making everyone turn and look at him as he frowned "hiding behind a shield so they don't have to die."
"Wu-man if you had not just noticed me and Heero just saved your butt so don't get cocky." Said Duo with as straight of face he could have. Wufei did not defend himself and instead just shut his mouth.
"Listen I know were there base is and I have a plan." Said Quatra as a he spread out blueprints of a base in front of everyone.
The cold, long corridor made Arigon's footsteps echo as he walked on the metal. "Damn gundum pilots I swear I will kill them." Mumbled Arigon to himself as he walked down the corridor that led to the briefing room. The door slid open when Arigon got close enough and he stepped in.
"This had better be good Vincent, I don't have time for people like you." Said Arigon turning to the mercenary who sat at the briefing table with his feet up on the desk and his hands polishing his gun. Vincent seemed to instead of taking the remark as an insult smirked and got up.
"I found your information and the person you wanted." Said Vincent staring into Arigon's cold eyes.
"You found it still intact I presume?" Asked Arigon with out much surprise.
"Yea, now were is my money?" Asked Vincent just as plainly. Vincent had worked with men like this before they did not care about you or even how you did it just as long as you did the job.
"Were is my prize?" Asked Arigon in a mocking tone
"The lab people have it." Answered Vincent now starting to grind his teeth.
"Fine, Your money is in the room we let you sleep in." Said Arigon as Vincent just stared and then finally broke the stare and left but just before he did he said
"I am gone after I get my money," He paused for a second and smiled to himself, "I can't waste my time with people like you." Vincent then left the room as Arigon stood staring into the air just smiling.
"Neither can I Vincent and we will meet again." Said Arigon out loud as he turned and left the room.
The wind blew making Duo's braided brown hair sway. The sun was just coming up over the mountains that were so far away. Duo needed time to think so he thought the roof would be a nice quit place. He thought that his fighting days were over but after a long period of time not fighting he had noticed that he was not actually living. It occurred to him today that when he fought he came alive. He loved the heat and intensity of a battle. The danger but what kind of scared him was the thing he loved the most…the killing. Duo heard a sound on the stairs behind and he did not even flip around to confront Quatra. "Duo what is the God of Death doing on the roof of a base staring at nothing?" Said Quatra playful but Duo cringed at the name.
"I need time to think Quatra," Said Duo as he turned to the young blonde. "Do get a thrill out of fighting."
"Well, yes we all do." Said Quatra staring into Duo's brown eyes as he stared back into his blue ones.
"No I mean like the best thrill ever, like you have been reborn or are at the height of your life." Said Duo, as Quatra seemed to be taken off guard.
"Duo what are you trying to ask me?" Asked Quatra he walked closer to Duo
"Do you get a thrill out of killing?" Asked Duo as Quatra looked away.
"I used to but then with what happened to Trowa I…" Quatra's voiced trailed of from there and he went and sat down on one of the chairs that were there. Duo walked over and sat in a chair next to Quatra.
"Listen Quatra we are all the same, we all love to kill even though when most of us think of it we deny it but it is true." Said Duo as Quatra shook his head.
"No!" Yelled Quatra as he stood up "I despise killing people but I have to so I can save other people."
"Quatra why did you even come up here in the first place?" Asked Duo roughly
"I also need to think sometimes to you know." Said Quatra defensively.
"Fine then I am gone, you can think all by yourself." Yelled Duo as he got up and stormed down the stairs.
"The attack on Tora 2 will not go without consequences." Yelled out a man with black hair and a white mustache. "I will not let it go unnoticed." Finished the man as the troops looked on without so much as a squirm unless they were ordered to. "We will avenge the death of the people at Tora 2," The man continued looking over the crowd "now be ready on a moments notice for an attack on the Gundum Pilots because we will bring justice for this outrage." The speech was then followed by one very loud unison of "Yes Sir." That echoed through the air. The man walked off of his podium and smiled as the sound of hands clapping roared through the crowd. The man walked off of the stage and down to a limousine that sat waiting.
"Sir did it go well." Asked a Butler as he opened the door
"Yes my plan worked perfectly." "Now that stage 1 and 2 is done stage 3 is my next stop." Said Talizar who barley looked at the Butler beside him.
"Yes, Mr. Vincent Hayes is leaving Aragon's main ship right now." Said the Butler just before he closed the door of the limousine.
"Good, then take me to my mansion so I can be there when he gets there and then I can see if he did a good job with my son Aragon." Said Talizar as the car started to move.
Vincent's brown hair barley moved as he walked down the corridor to his ship "The Silent Wolf". His ship was his pride but there was one thing that he liked a little bit more than his ship, his money. Vincent knew that this job was tricky but would get him lots of money in the end. He was playing two sides and was hoping not to get caught. His life had been full of jobs but few had been like this. These types of jobs showed him how corrupt father and son's can be when they hunger for power. Vincent saw his black ship ahead of him and broke out into a jog after seeing it was all ready to go. He got in and put on the thrusters as the huge docking bay door opened up into the vast wasteland of space.
Duo sat in Deathscythe as he checked all of the components and systems. Armor was at full and so were his weapons. The job at hand would only need Trowa for now but if things got bad all the rest would have to pull him out which would not be easy. Trowa was now going by the name Jake Barton and was a high ranking captain from Tora 2 who was being transferred to the new Tora X-2 base that supposedly was just a safe house for dismantled weapons when really it was another big base housing, something big and dangerous and Trowa was the one who had to try and find out what that thing is.
Duo had confidence in Trowa since he had done this stuff before but these guys were good and if anything happened Duo was ready to pull his buddy out. Trowa was practicing his part quit nicely. He could do anything you asked him to do without making it look weird or suspicious. Duo sometimes wished he could do that. Ever since the night on the rooftop he couldn't look Quatra straight in the eye.
Duo leaned back in his chair as the computer system ran a check on individual databases and information containing such things as previous battle plans and methods. Duo sighed aloud just as Heero walked in.
"Something has been bugging you lately, what is it?" asked Heero plainly
"Hmm, funny you notice other peoples feelings." Said Duo smirking
"I am serious Duo, tell me." Said Heero still keeping calm
"You are always serious." Said Duo putting on a straight face
"Duo." Said Heero dropping his voice to a growl
"Its nothing I have just been thinking." Said Duo leaning back in his chair so he could not look straight into Heero's eyes.
"Duo, I don't need you doing anything foolish if we have to fight so it had better be nothing that will affect your performance on the battlefield." Said Heero just before he left leaving Duo sitting there thinking.
Trowa sat on the shuttle ship thinking. He was not worried about the job at hand but he was kind of worried about what he would find. If he got caught they might have to blow the whole colony and he was almost positive that there would be innocent people there as well as officers. Trowa looked out the little window to see the endless wasteland of space. Trowa also saw a ship in the far distances. It was a mercenaries ship because it was black and the only way you could see it is by its chrome engines. "What would a mercenary be coming here for?" Asked Trowa silently as he sat back into his seat and closed his eyes so he could think.
Vincent could see that he was close to the colony that held Talizar's mansion and his new Tora X-2 base. Vincent could also see the great big white transport ship that was probably sending new supplies as well as new troops. Vincent remembered when he was first on one of those. It had been long ago when he was still a young soldier. His life was deprived of a family and he wanted to go into the military so he could have friends to make up for that. He was met instead with cold hostility by his fellow men and later became the best out of all of them. Sad part is though most of them are now dead because of him. Vincent sat back in his seat as he thought about his early days. It would take another half hour until he reached the base so he figured he would think and allow himself to drift into a dreamless sleep.
Trowa barley felt the shudder of the ship as it docked. Trowa was the first to stand up out of all the rest and for a good reason too. He was the highest commanding officer in the ship. Trowa walked with the ease of a high commanding officer. Everyone around him waited for his command. It was a great pride to be a high officer and Trowa hated it. No one person can control the mission or lives of other people. That is what Trowa thought at least.
The ships doors opened with a small hissing sound just as Trowa walked up to it. Before Trowa left the ship he looked over to every troop. Most looked young, very young. Trowa would hate to have to blow this place up but if he had to it would not hurt him too much. Trowa stepped out of the ship silently as he saw the huge docking bay full of people running from one end of the bay to the next. He also saw robots taking supplies out of the different white ships like the one he had ridden in. The whole place was in an uproar and it seemed that only his ship carried people.
Zechs sat in the control room. He stared at all the panels as he thought about what had happened in the past and what could happen later. "Hey Zechs." yelled Duo from the door. Milliardo hated that name; it brought back to many painful memories. He flipped around and confronted Duo, as he said, "Never call me that again." "I want to be called by my real name from now on."
"Okay fine, but what are you doing in here all alone?" Asked Duo cocking an eyebrow up in suspicion.
"Just thinking." Said Milliardo looking away.
"Hmm… well I wont bother you" Said Duo with some concern on his face until he perked up and said "Well I have some of my own business to attend to myself."
"Ya see you." Said Milliardo turning towards the screen again as Duo left the room.
Aragon hated the rank smell of the labs. It was too bad that they couldn't work on something with a better smell. "Well, is the "soldier" in good condition?" Aragon half-asked and half-demanded.
"Yes, to a point. It will take at least a month to reconstruct part of its brain." Said the scientist that was looking over the body in front of him.
"We don't have a month." Said Aragon sternly as the Scientist craned his head so he could look at Aragon
"I don't think we have a choice sir." Said the Scientist trying his best not to sound impatient.
"Well my good "friend" then what part of the brain must be reconstructed." Said Aragon sounding very hostile.
"The most crucial part." Said the scientist smiling as he looked back at the body "The part that will make him able to think without remorse or feeling, the part that will make him immune to all emotions and will make him a cold blooded killer."
"Then I will give you three weeks." Said Aragon ignoring the glance that the scientist gave him. "If you fail then I will get a different chief scientist to do it."
"Yes sir, it will be done in three weeks sir." Said the scientist straightening up and saluting.
"Good" Said Aragon leaving the room as the scientist ran to his assistants yelling out directions and doses of some chemicals. "Now I will overstep my father and I shall rule the family position as the leader of Oblivion." Said Aragon out loud smiling as he walked down the cold metal catwalk to the main part of his ship that he so lovingly named the "Executioner".