Title: Agent Wing (Chapter 3)

Archived: http://www.angelfire.com/tx/canadianna/

Disclaimers: Not mine to own, never have been. I'm just 'borrowing' their characters cause they's is cool!

Warnings: Shounen-ai, sci-fi-ish, bizarreness, mild swearing, aliens in flying saucers, me knowing nothing of army positions or whatever they are called, I'm trying ok? If you don't like any of this and flame me, I will personally laugh at you cause I don't care. I write this to appease my boredom and my creativity. Kapeish?

Pairings: 2+1, 4+3, 5+M, 6+13, and a possible mention of 6+9

Onto the story!!!!

~...~ Denotes telepathic speech

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Chapter 3

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One week later...

Heero found out that despite his earlier doubts, he worked well with Duo. During his week off, he and Duo, along with Trowa and Quatre, played a few games of paintball one day. Trowa and Quatre teamed up together and he and Duo became a team. Heero discovered that during the game, he and Duo actually worked well together, defeated Quatre and Trowa 2-1. Heero snapped out of his reverie when Duo's hand gently shook his left shoulder. "Ready to go?"

Heero nodded affirmatively as he stood up. "Yep. Ready for your firs assignment?"

Duo adjusted his forest green tie that matched Heero's in a mirror as he turned to smile reassuringly at Heero. "Of course. We make sure a family of Erif's reach the Gundam Compound safely for immigration purposes."

"We meet them at the Skilos International Spaceport at 1500 hours at terminal 9."

Duo chuckled as they headed towards the truck. Once inside the black Camero, Heero drove them to the space station, for what should be a basic meet and greet the aliens, bring them to the Gundam Compound for a routine interview. Piece of cake. It was usually assigned to a first year's agent new to the field but Treize wanted them to get used to working with each other before giving them anything majorly difficult. Teamwork was essential if you were partnered up. If you did not work well together, a mission could lead to failure if a basic trust had not been formed.

Upon the arrival to the space station, Heero made sure to check in with headquarters to assure them they had arrived safely for their mission. Heero briefed Duo into some of the basics they'd be doing as they waited. A few minutes later, a bell rang and a woman's voice announced that a flight 216 from the Ralos System had arrived. "Guess that's our cue, eh Heero?" Heero agreed as they headed towards the terminal to greet the Erif family.

Both men looked at the pictures of the family they had been assigned to, Duo holding a sign that read 'Ispey' in bold letters--the family's last name. A few minutes later a red headed man and woman with two small children, a boy and a girl, walked up to them smiling as the mother and father each carried a suitcase. "Hello..." the man said in a low baritone. Duo smiled at the family of four. "Welcome to Earth, Mr. and Mrs. Ispey. I am Agent Deathscythe and this is my partner Agent Wing." Heero lifted up a hand and waved to the family and bared a flash of his teeth as his lips curved upwards in a brief smile. Duo's heart almost stopped at the sight of Heero smiling. Heero looked really good when he smiled, Duo thought. I would die to see him smile again! I love how his eyes sparkle like that, Duo thought.

Heero picked up one of the suitcases and lifted a hand to point towards a direction. "If you'll follow me," he said trailing off. The little Erif family followed behind Heero, Duo trailing behind in case anything should happen. Heero brought the family to a room at the back of the station to a room that remotely resembled a doctor's office. He gently shut the door behind them with a swoosh as it shut. "If you don't mind, Mr. and Mrs. Ispey, could you and your family please shift into your normal forms? Protocol asks that Agent Deathscythe and I scan you for your safety."

The father nodded and pressed a button on his watch, turning around and motioning to his family to do the same. A few seconds later, Duo and Heero were looking at a fuzzy family of four. Each member sported a purple fuzzy tail (1) with a white tip on the end that looked similar to that of a fox, their faces were furry, red and black striped like a tiger. Their eyes were gold as they watched Duo and Heero with mild hesitation. They looked mostly human save for the tail, eyes, and fur on their faces. Heero pulled out a scanner to scan for possibly weapons or tracking devices as Duo used the blood tester on each family member.

Heero cleared his throat to catch Duo's attention. "Alright then, you're safe to go. Agent Wing and I will bring you to the Gundam Compound," Duo informed the family.

Heading back towards the truck through a field of tourists was never fun, unfortunately, the two Gundam Agents and the Erif family never made it to the truck as shots broke out on them. "Shit," Duo heard Heero swore as he pulled out his nano gun. "Agent Deathscythe, bring the Ispey family to safety. I'll take care of things here."

"But--"

"Go! I'll be fine!" With that said, Heero started to take shots at their attackers. Two Oz lackeys grinned and laughed as they shot at them, aiming most shots at the Ispey family. Duo got shot once on his shoulder as he ran with the family towards the exit. Heero signed in relief as he noticed Duo and the family had made it to safety. He began to shoot at the Oz men, disarming them with perfect aim. The head Oz lackey called of his men to a retreat, running away in the opposite direction into the crowd of people. He did a quick scan of the premises to make sure no one had been injured through the attack, relieved that the worst that had happened were several shocked and frightened people and no injuries. Heero quickly ran out of the building to find out where Duo and the Ispey family had fled.

As Duo ran out of the space station, the Ispey family pacing close behind, he all of a sudden smelled smoke and turned around to find Mr. Ispey breathing fire on two Oz men, his purple tail twitching angrily towards those who tried to attack his family. The two men finally dropped to the ground, burned. Smoke flared out of the Erif's nose as he turned towards Duo, nodding for him to continue his lead. Duo smiled a thank you as they continued running towards the truck, the two parents carrying each a small child. Duo never noticed a pair of watchful eyes watching his retreating form. A triumphant smile formed on the figure's face as it turned to leave.

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Duo noticed Heero's retreating form as he headed towards the truck. The entire family was ready to leave as soon as he boarded. Duo yelled out to Heero as an Oz soldier suddenly appeared and shot Heero in the back. Duo quickly parked the car, mumbled an apology to the family as he ran out towards Heero, shooting the Oz soldier dead, catching Heero before he fell unconscious.

~Your eyes are glowing~ a voice suddenly spoke into Duo's head as he shot his head up and looked at Mr. Ispey, the man nodding to him.

"What did you say?"

~Your eyes, they glow.~ Mr. Ispey told him telepathically.

"Yeah right," Duo spoke in disbelief as he and Mr. Ispey lifted Heero into the passenger seat.

A woman's voice spoke in his head suddenly as he sat down in the driver's seat. ~You care for him?~

Duo didn't bother turning around as he drove, ignoring the pain in his shoulder as he drove. "Yes..."

The woman, Mrs. Ispey smiled at him, her children asleep in her lap. ~You should go for him. He seems like a nice man,~ Mrs. Ispey informed him.

"I didn't think Erifs were telepathic," Duo questioned.

Mrs. Ispey ruffled her sleeping son's blonde hair before answering him. "Of course we can. How do you expect us to communicate when we breathe fire?"

Duo chuckled as he turned a corner. "I guess you are right."

The family and Duo drove in silence to the Gundam Compound. Mr. Ispey helped Duo carry Heero towards the infirmary before they went to the administrations office to inform people of their arrival. The secretary, Hilde, smiled at Duo and told him she would handle things from there. Duo nodded an affirmative as he headed back to the infirmary to have his shoulder looked at and check up on Heero.

After a nurse checked Duo's shoulder, she assured him that the Oz's soldiers only grazed the skin of his shoulder leaving an angry red burn.

"You shouldn't move it around too much if you want your arm to heal properly. Take these," the blonde nurse told him as she handed him a bottle of Tylenol 3. "Take them before you sleep or when you're in pain." Duo smiled weakly as he stood up to take his leave and visit his partner. A doctor directed him to Heero's room where he found his silent partner sleeping in a bed with an IV hooked up to him.

He's lucky, you know," the doctor told him before continuing. "The gun wound just missed his spinal chord and anything vital. He'll heal in no time but he's going to have to rest and take some time off," the doctor explain as he checked on Heero's stats before leaving. Duo sat down in the yellow chair next to the bed watching the sleeping Heero. Duo yawned a couple of times before he fell asleep in his chair.


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Duo awoke sometime later feeling someone watching him. He opened his eyes and found Heero's Prussian blue eyes staring up at him. Duo smiled sleepily and stretched, wincing as his shoulder spasmed from the pain. "Good afternoon, Hee-chan."

"You mean good evening. It's 10:30pm" Duo looked at the small digital clock on the nightstand and then looked back to Heero.

"So it is. How are you feeling?"

Heero cleared his throat and took a sip of water from some water that had been poured from his nightstand. "I feel like I've gone to Hell and back. And thanks..."

"For what?" Duo asked.

"For rescuing me when you didn't have to and could have left and got the Erif family to safety," Heero told him softly.

Duo grinned and shrugged non-chalantly. "It was nothing, Heero. I would have rescued you one way or another." Heero's lips curved up in the formation of a smile as his hands clenched and unclenched his sheets as his eyes darted around the room nervously.

Breaking the silence, Duo asked, "what happened to the Ispey family. Any ideas? It's strange how this simple mission turned out into one huge disaster."

Heero nodded "While you were asleep, Hilde came in and updated me on our situation. It turns out that Oz wanted the Ispey family because of their pyro, telepathic, and telekinetic abilities. Erifs make great intelligence workers but fortunately the Erifs are a peaceful people. Hilde told me they thank us for saving them. They will be moving to California in the US.

Duo grinned. "Mission accomplished."

"Hai..."

Duo and Heero sat in silence for a while. Duo looked over to Heero at one point and noticed he had fallen asleep. He stiffly stood up, fixed the sheets around Heero and left the hospital room to return to the tiny apartment to get some well-deserved sleep.


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TBC...

1. One of my friends INSISTED I include an alien with a purple tail, here you go Hex, your purple tail has been included.

Oooo mysterious figure returns...dun dun dun. What do you think?

If anyone can draw I'd LOVE to see what you can do with how some of these characters turn out like. Email me at Hakumei@otakumail.com if you have any ideas or want to. I'd dedicate a chapter to you or something. I can't draw.