Author's Notes: Thanks to all the nice people who have R&R. Someone there
said: "I won't believe Duo is dead unless I see the corpse…" or something
like that, right? He he he. I am not sure if I am capable of killing Duo in
a million years…Well, who do you think our dear 02 is? I'm definitely very
obvious, aren't I? Just keep reading please….Shin's Voice here.
"Of Good-byes And Returns"
Chapter Three
The door of the vigilance station was opened. Heero entered in silence, spotting a person sitting in front of a laptop in the other room. The guy was polishing one of the several guns he had in a collection case, a cup of tea over the table.
Heero looked at him seriously. Just like the soldiers of that zone, he looked young. Not tall, the guy was wearing a long black duster, jeans and blue shirt. And dark glasses and a black military beret.
"Have you lost something?" –the guy asked seriously, without even turning.
Heero looked around but nothing seemed out of order. Then he glared the mercenary again. Havoc was sitting with his back to Heero, but the pilot noticed his stance. Military stance. Very stiffen and straight back.
'A young cadet as spy? Sounds like OZ methods…' –Heero thought.
"If you have nothing to do here, you better get lost…" –Havoc said while loading the gun in his hands.
"Information. I've come to check the information you supposedly intercepted" –Heero answered in his icy voice as he moved towards the laptop.
*CLICK*
The metallic sound of the trigger's secure being released gained Heero's attention.
"If you touch it I will shoot your hand off" –Havoc threatened, pointing the gun.
Heero stood impassive, just looking at the guy seriously. The mercenary was also looking at him through his dark glasses.
"There you are, Gundam Pilot" –Rick said, entering the room- "Don't start again, Havoc, put the gun down. Heero Yuy, the men are ready to adjust to your battle's sketch. They'll be fighting the Aries, as you said you'd be facing all the Dolls. Come, please…"
Heero glared the other guy for a while, finding the same serious expression, and then turned to leave with commander Rick.
"Please excuse him, too. The guy is kind of rude and mistrustful" –Rick explained as they headed to another building.
"Doesn't he allow you to check the computer even though you're the commander here?" –Heero asked.
"No. No one can touch that laptop of his" –Rick shrugged- "The fact I'm the commander here doesn't matter for him. He's not one of my men, so he's not compelled to obey. He says he'll stay here until the gun's business is good"
'Not reliable. I've found the spy. Liability of the mission. I better take care of him soon' –Heero thought.
And from the crow's nest, the eyes of the mercenary followed him.
"You better watch your back, Heero Yuy. OZ's is not pleased with a Gundam pilot here" –Havoc murmured as he reentered his shelter.
Heero continued his way beside Rick, when he suddenly halted. They've just passed by a storage building and he had seen the shadow once again.
The silhouette of someone clad in a huge coat was watching him from the window. When the stalker noticed Heero's glance, he backed off and disappeared of sight.
"Well, well, well… It seems you have noticed about me, Heero" –the youngster hidden under the coat smiled- "I wonder if you know who I am…"
And as the well-trained soldier he was, he blended in among the devices and mechanics.
Heero spent that night confirming the information in his laptop and when he was sure it was right, he went to meet with Rick and the generals. The battle was programmed for that day's morning, the 4th day of Heero's presence in that satellite. It was obvious that the soldiers were impatient to see the Gundam pilot taking action and to confirm what all the fuzz about him was about.
Rick and three more lieutenants will lead the men in ground, while Heero would take command into space. Just as foreseen, OZ troops attacked the rebel's base.
The battle lasted several hours, because even though there were only 12 or 13 Dolls and like 10 Aries, the fight was difficult because the zone was surrounded by satellites and they have to be really careful.
Not even one member of the space forces suffered any damage. Now they knew why the Gundam Pilots were so high estimated. Wing Zero had taken all the Dolls and even a couple of Aries.
Heero decided to go down to the ground because he knew the battle there was more difficult. The screens of the cockpit gave him a full view of the situation.
Though OZ's troops were bigger, the Rebel's forces seemed to be winning thanks to strategic formations and battle plans, shooting Ozies down.
"It seems this commander Rick is smarter than I thought" –Heero murmured. The image in one of his side screen captured his attention.
A group of soldiers were about to fire a civilian building. The guns were aimed and the Ozies ready to shoot. Some of them lifted hand grenades, but sudden shots stopped them.
When Heero focused in the image, he could see the silhouette of the person with the coat standing close to the spot, a gun in his hands. Then the shadow disappeared. There was also a group of rebels in the zone, leaded by Rick, who were shooting the enemy down.
"Who fired?" –Heero wondered for a second before turning his look to the screen once again.
Rick had been shoot, falling to the ground, several of his men surrounding him. But behind him was Havoc, who took care of the leading while the others helped Rick. Finally, the OZ soldiers retreated or died, leaving the zone.
Heero narrowed his eyes when he saw Havoc separate from the group and he bent beside the corpse of an OZ soldier. He turned the body down, looking for something under the uniform's layers. The mercenary finally took a hidden communicator from the right side of the soldier's belt.
"Weird" –Heero mused- "He found it way too fast, way too easy"
Heero, being a trained Gundam Pilot, knew that every OZ soldier was supposed to carry that device, but it was indeed weird that a mercenary knew about it.
"Unless he is an enemy spy, an OZ soldier…" –Heero concluded, coming down from Wing Zero to check things up.
After two hours, things returned to normality. There were many wounded in the hospital and some dead.
Heero went to meet with Rick and the rest of the officers. They all thanked him and honestly congratulated him, but as usual, the Japanese pilot didn't even acknowledge the compliments. Few minutes later, Havoc joined them.
"So, what did you find?" –Rick asked.
"Not much. We need to reestablish our forces, but we can't rest yet. OZ isn't pleased by its defeat, but there are still two ships wandering in the zone. According with what I heard, it possible they try another attack in some time…"
"How soon?" –one officer asked.
"I don't know" –Havoc answered, sheathing two guns.
Heero frowned.
"Are they waiting for their spy's news?" –Heero asked directly to the suspicious guy. The mercenary hesitated in answering.
"Maybe" –he said at last, not quite sure- "But if they do attack, I suppose the headquarters are going to be their targets. They maybe are planning an ambush…I have things to do" –Havoc said, leaving towards his nest.
The other also went back to rest or something, but Heero stopped Rick.
"He doesn't convince me." –Heero said seriously- "It can be a trap"
"He may not be very polite, but we can rely on him" –Rick stated- "Some of the strategies of this battle were planned by him…"
"Even more suspicious. He seems more like a young OZ soldier than a mercenary" –Heero replied.
"Well, I'm not sure what to say at that. I could tell he is almost your age and you also don't seem to be a Gundam Pilot…"
Heero desisted. The commander was blind, he concluded. He went to his room and locked himself into.
He once peered through the window, but he bumped with the sight of some soldiers taking the corpses to the hospital. Without realizing it, the scene affected him.
He laid spread in his bed and he took a silver object from his jeans pocket. He fell asleep watching the cross.
It was early in the morning when he woke up from his slumber. He peered again through the window, but what he saw then surprised him.
Right outside the little house, standing in front of that same window, the shadow was watching him. Immediately the silhouette backed off, taken off guard.
This time Heero was sure that it was a youngster under that coat, but the shadow disappeared in an eye's blink.
"Why are you hiding from me? What the hell is going on? Is it you, Duo?" – Heero mumbled, desperate as he contemplated the possibility of finding Duo. But he waited and nothing happened.
Confused, he left the house and went to look for Rick. He spotted him talking with Havoc and some other men. Heero changed idea and headed towards the crow's nest.
Once he was inside, he lurked the drawers and closet, but there was nothing there. Then he approached the laptop and set it on. He didn't spend too much time before discovering that, as he had supposed, Havoc had an Oz's connection in the Internet.
Heero went through the data only to find that OZ last message was indeed a new attack to the base. They were planning in sending some snipers to ambush the headquarters and then, a great number of Dolls and Aries were going to demolish the place.
And finally, the congratulations to the "young and efficient spy" for the information of the rebel's troops and Heero Yuy's movements.
Heero pressed his lips tightly when he read that. OZ also was hurrying the spy to finish his mission and kill the pilot.
"Traitor" –Heero whispered- "But I also know how to play this game" –he said as he sent a direct message to Quatre and the others. If OZ were planning on bringing a Doll's army, they would find 4 Gundams waiting for them.
"Maybe 5 Gundams" –Heero thought, as he remembered the sight of his stalker under the coat. He heard quiet steps getting closer so he jumped through the window in silence and he headed towards the buildings around.
He had to find Duo. That was his first task. Then, he'll take care of Havoc. He didn't say anything to anyone because it was very clear that Rick wouldn't believe him. He spent hours looking for his 'shadow', but he didn't spot him.
"Damn, Duo, now that I want to find you, you don't come"-Heero mumbled- "Now it's a good time for you to come and make one of your spectacular, dramatic entrances if you want, but let me see you once and for all…"
Heero stopped briefly. Since when did he talk to himself in Duo's way of sentences? Since when did he talk to himself anyway?
He felt a wave of loneliness, anxiousness and desperation that was chilling him. Those feelings had started since Duo died, left.
"Damn, Duo –01 whispered again- " You're such a bad influence."- Heero said, discovering how much he missed and cared about his friend.
Heero went back to his room and started to check up the information in his laptop. He had received Quatre's answer where 04 said that they'd be arriving in less than an hour. Then, he entered into his OZ connection in the Internet. After all, any Gundam Pilot was a great hacker and Heero could easily create those connections.
He read the messages twice. OZ was changing plans. They were moving forward the battle's hour. The attack was supposed to begin in fifteen minutes.
In that precisely moment, the sounds of voices and shootings against the base started to fill the air.
Heero practically flew out of the building and he headed towards Rick and his men.
"Snipers. Like 12 or 13 of them. They'll shoot down the higher officers. Doll's troops are coming" –Heero informed when he arrived to the place.
"We know" –Rick answered- "But it seems they went ahead time"
"How do you know?" –Heero asked.
"Havoc. He also said he had spotted the spy. It's a young soldier who came here like 3 weeks ago and his number is KT-33. He says this guy is everywhere, watching our moves…but we'll take care of him"-Rick explained while firing.
"Damn!" –Heero clenched his fists. Havoc had planned everything! They were going to kill Duo! - "Where's Havoc?"
"Hmm. On the east hill, the closest point to the snipers. He is trying to take as many as he can…Hey! Wait!" –Rick saw how Heero ran to that place. The commander thought for a while and then ordered: "Come on, soldiers, we're not doing much here! Lets get closer!
And they also started to run.
Heero was running fast, his mind also working at light speed. It was obvious that, instead of attacking, Havoc was planning on meeting his comrades there and run away.
"I'm not letting you go away" –Heero murmured.
To Be Continued
*************Shinigami's Voice********************
A/N: Final chapter ahead! Come on and R&R! We're gonna kick a certain spy's posterior…
"Of Good-byes And Returns"
Chapter Three
The door of the vigilance station was opened. Heero entered in silence, spotting a person sitting in front of a laptop in the other room. The guy was polishing one of the several guns he had in a collection case, a cup of tea over the table.
Heero looked at him seriously. Just like the soldiers of that zone, he looked young. Not tall, the guy was wearing a long black duster, jeans and blue shirt. And dark glasses and a black military beret.
"Have you lost something?" –the guy asked seriously, without even turning.
Heero looked around but nothing seemed out of order. Then he glared the mercenary again. Havoc was sitting with his back to Heero, but the pilot noticed his stance. Military stance. Very stiffen and straight back.
'A young cadet as spy? Sounds like OZ methods…' –Heero thought.
"If you have nothing to do here, you better get lost…" –Havoc said while loading the gun in his hands.
"Information. I've come to check the information you supposedly intercepted" –Heero answered in his icy voice as he moved towards the laptop.
*CLICK*
The metallic sound of the trigger's secure being released gained Heero's attention.
"If you touch it I will shoot your hand off" –Havoc threatened, pointing the gun.
Heero stood impassive, just looking at the guy seriously. The mercenary was also looking at him through his dark glasses.
"There you are, Gundam Pilot" –Rick said, entering the room- "Don't start again, Havoc, put the gun down. Heero Yuy, the men are ready to adjust to your battle's sketch. They'll be fighting the Aries, as you said you'd be facing all the Dolls. Come, please…"
Heero glared the other guy for a while, finding the same serious expression, and then turned to leave with commander Rick.
"Please excuse him, too. The guy is kind of rude and mistrustful" –Rick explained as they headed to another building.
"Doesn't he allow you to check the computer even though you're the commander here?" –Heero asked.
"No. No one can touch that laptop of his" –Rick shrugged- "The fact I'm the commander here doesn't matter for him. He's not one of my men, so he's not compelled to obey. He says he'll stay here until the gun's business is good"
'Not reliable. I've found the spy. Liability of the mission. I better take care of him soon' –Heero thought.
And from the crow's nest, the eyes of the mercenary followed him.
"You better watch your back, Heero Yuy. OZ's is not pleased with a Gundam pilot here" –Havoc murmured as he reentered his shelter.
Heero continued his way beside Rick, when he suddenly halted. They've just passed by a storage building and he had seen the shadow once again.
The silhouette of someone clad in a huge coat was watching him from the window. When the stalker noticed Heero's glance, he backed off and disappeared of sight.
"Well, well, well… It seems you have noticed about me, Heero" –the youngster hidden under the coat smiled- "I wonder if you know who I am…"
And as the well-trained soldier he was, he blended in among the devices and mechanics.
Heero spent that night confirming the information in his laptop and when he was sure it was right, he went to meet with Rick and the generals. The battle was programmed for that day's morning, the 4th day of Heero's presence in that satellite. It was obvious that the soldiers were impatient to see the Gundam pilot taking action and to confirm what all the fuzz about him was about.
Rick and three more lieutenants will lead the men in ground, while Heero would take command into space. Just as foreseen, OZ troops attacked the rebel's base.
The battle lasted several hours, because even though there were only 12 or 13 Dolls and like 10 Aries, the fight was difficult because the zone was surrounded by satellites and they have to be really careful.
Not even one member of the space forces suffered any damage. Now they knew why the Gundam Pilots were so high estimated. Wing Zero had taken all the Dolls and even a couple of Aries.
Heero decided to go down to the ground because he knew the battle there was more difficult. The screens of the cockpit gave him a full view of the situation.
Though OZ's troops were bigger, the Rebel's forces seemed to be winning thanks to strategic formations and battle plans, shooting Ozies down.
"It seems this commander Rick is smarter than I thought" –Heero murmured. The image in one of his side screen captured his attention.
A group of soldiers were about to fire a civilian building. The guns were aimed and the Ozies ready to shoot. Some of them lifted hand grenades, but sudden shots stopped them.
When Heero focused in the image, he could see the silhouette of the person with the coat standing close to the spot, a gun in his hands. Then the shadow disappeared. There was also a group of rebels in the zone, leaded by Rick, who were shooting the enemy down.
"Who fired?" –Heero wondered for a second before turning his look to the screen once again.
Rick had been shoot, falling to the ground, several of his men surrounding him. But behind him was Havoc, who took care of the leading while the others helped Rick. Finally, the OZ soldiers retreated or died, leaving the zone.
Heero narrowed his eyes when he saw Havoc separate from the group and he bent beside the corpse of an OZ soldier. He turned the body down, looking for something under the uniform's layers. The mercenary finally took a hidden communicator from the right side of the soldier's belt.
"Weird" –Heero mused- "He found it way too fast, way too easy"
Heero, being a trained Gundam Pilot, knew that every OZ soldier was supposed to carry that device, but it was indeed weird that a mercenary knew about it.
"Unless he is an enemy spy, an OZ soldier…" –Heero concluded, coming down from Wing Zero to check things up.
After two hours, things returned to normality. There were many wounded in the hospital and some dead.
Heero went to meet with Rick and the rest of the officers. They all thanked him and honestly congratulated him, but as usual, the Japanese pilot didn't even acknowledge the compliments. Few minutes later, Havoc joined them.
"So, what did you find?" –Rick asked.
"Not much. We need to reestablish our forces, but we can't rest yet. OZ isn't pleased by its defeat, but there are still two ships wandering in the zone. According with what I heard, it possible they try another attack in some time…"
"How soon?" –one officer asked.
"I don't know" –Havoc answered, sheathing two guns.
Heero frowned.
"Are they waiting for their spy's news?" –Heero asked directly to the suspicious guy. The mercenary hesitated in answering.
"Maybe" –he said at last, not quite sure- "But if they do attack, I suppose the headquarters are going to be their targets. They maybe are planning an ambush…I have things to do" –Havoc said, leaving towards his nest.
The other also went back to rest or something, but Heero stopped Rick.
"He doesn't convince me." –Heero said seriously- "It can be a trap"
"He may not be very polite, but we can rely on him" –Rick stated- "Some of the strategies of this battle were planned by him…"
"Even more suspicious. He seems more like a young OZ soldier than a mercenary" –Heero replied.
"Well, I'm not sure what to say at that. I could tell he is almost your age and you also don't seem to be a Gundam Pilot…"
Heero desisted. The commander was blind, he concluded. He went to his room and locked himself into.
He once peered through the window, but he bumped with the sight of some soldiers taking the corpses to the hospital. Without realizing it, the scene affected him.
He laid spread in his bed and he took a silver object from his jeans pocket. He fell asleep watching the cross.
It was early in the morning when he woke up from his slumber. He peered again through the window, but what he saw then surprised him.
Right outside the little house, standing in front of that same window, the shadow was watching him. Immediately the silhouette backed off, taken off guard.
This time Heero was sure that it was a youngster under that coat, but the shadow disappeared in an eye's blink.
"Why are you hiding from me? What the hell is going on? Is it you, Duo?" – Heero mumbled, desperate as he contemplated the possibility of finding Duo. But he waited and nothing happened.
Confused, he left the house and went to look for Rick. He spotted him talking with Havoc and some other men. Heero changed idea and headed towards the crow's nest.
Once he was inside, he lurked the drawers and closet, but there was nothing there. Then he approached the laptop and set it on. He didn't spend too much time before discovering that, as he had supposed, Havoc had an Oz's connection in the Internet.
Heero went through the data only to find that OZ last message was indeed a new attack to the base. They were planning in sending some snipers to ambush the headquarters and then, a great number of Dolls and Aries were going to demolish the place.
And finally, the congratulations to the "young and efficient spy" for the information of the rebel's troops and Heero Yuy's movements.
Heero pressed his lips tightly when he read that. OZ also was hurrying the spy to finish his mission and kill the pilot.
"Traitor" –Heero whispered- "But I also know how to play this game" –he said as he sent a direct message to Quatre and the others. If OZ were planning on bringing a Doll's army, they would find 4 Gundams waiting for them.
"Maybe 5 Gundams" –Heero thought, as he remembered the sight of his stalker under the coat. He heard quiet steps getting closer so he jumped through the window in silence and he headed towards the buildings around.
He had to find Duo. That was his first task. Then, he'll take care of Havoc. He didn't say anything to anyone because it was very clear that Rick wouldn't believe him. He spent hours looking for his 'shadow', but he didn't spot him.
"Damn, Duo, now that I want to find you, you don't come"-Heero mumbled- "Now it's a good time for you to come and make one of your spectacular, dramatic entrances if you want, but let me see you once and for all…"
Heero stopped briefly. Since when did he talk to himself in Duo's way of sentences? Since when did he talk to himself anyway?
He felt a wave of loneliness, anxiousness and desperation that was chilling him. Those feelings had started since Duo died, left.
"Damn, Duo –01 whispered again- " You're such a bad influence."- Heero said, discovering how much he missed and cared about his friend.
Heero went back to his room and started to check up the information in his laptop. He had received Quatre's answer where 04 said that they'd be arriving in less than an hour. Then, he entered into his OZ connection in the Internet. After all, any Gundam Pilot was a great hacker and Heero could easily create those connections.
He read the messages twice. OZ was changing plans. They were moving forward the battle's hour. The attack was supposed to begin in fifteen minutes.
In that precisely moment, the sounds of voices and shootings against the base started to fill the air.
Heero practically flew out of the building and he headed towards Rick and his men.
"Snipers. Like 12 or 13 of them. They'll shoot down the higher officers. Doll's troops are coming" –Heero informed when he arrived to the place.
"We know" –Rick answered- "But it seems they went ahead time"
"How do you know?" –Heero asked.
"Havoc. He also said he had spotted the spy. It's a young soldier who came here like 3 weeks ago and his number is KT-33. He says this guy is everywhere, watching our moves…but we'll take care of him"-Rick explained while firing.
"Damn!" –Heero clenched his fists. Havoc had planned everything! They were going to kill Duo! - "Where's Havoc?"
"Hmm. On the east hill, the closest point to the snipers. He is trying to take as many as he can…Hey! Wait!" –Rick saw how Heero ran to that place. The commander thought for a while and then ordered: "Come on, soldiers, we're not doing much here! Lets get closer!
And they also started to run.
Heero was running fast, his mind also working at light speed. It was obvious that, instead of attacking, Havoc was planning on meeting his comrades there and run away.
"I'm not letting you go away" –Heero murmured.
To Be Continued
*************Shinigami's Voice********************
A/N: Final chapter ahead! Come on and R&R! We're gonna kick a certain spy's posterior…