I would like to dedicate this chapter to Starrie...thank you again!!
Chapter 2
Heero sat at the breakfast table, not wanting to eat anything. He felt sick to the stomach of the earth people and their decision to separate them. He looked over and saw Duo looking out of the window, slowly biting his bread.
"Duo…what's wrong?" Heero asked. He didn't answer and began to look like he was in deep wandering. "DUO?"
Duo jumped out of his skin when he heard Heero call him. "WHAT?"
"Are you okay?" Heero asked again.
"Yeah…yeah…why are you asking?" Duo questioned. He looked puzzled at Heero.
"Well, you looked a little worried, so I just wanted to know if you're okay," Heero answered.
"Okay…you're freaking me out here…are you getting soft on me?" Duo now was absolutely puzzled.
Heero looked in Duo's eyes and he looked very serious about what he was asking. Heero had not told him yet why he's been running away mysteriously for a while and coming back an hour later. He didn't find any other reason to not tell him. Heero broke down when he thought of Relena. Duo immediately come over and hugged him.
"Heero…there is something wrong and you're not tellin' me. What is it?" Duo said as he placed him on the couch.
"Relena…I will never be able to see her again! I miss her so much! The new law…can't see her!" Heero kept on weeping. "Oh…you're still in love with Relena…you're in my league…I will never see Hilde again! It's okay…you know we can sneak in, Heero, don't worry! I will make sure you see her again!" Duo said comforting Heero. He knew better! The protection of earth has doubled in the past year! Any one coming from space will be killed for sure!!
Heero stopped and sat up. "Duo, you're only saying this to make me fell better! There is no way that you and I can go in!" Heero began very seriously. "There is no way…" he said as he got up and went to his room. He gave Relena that necklace
Duo leaned back on the couch and began to think. "He must really love her…" he said to himself. He knew that Heero is not the type to break down and cry.
He looked up at he ceiling. 'There has to be a way' he thought. 'There is always a solution to every problem.' From his tiredness, he fell into deep sleep.
'Duo…Duo' someone called out for him. 'Duo…Duo' He opened his eyes and saw Hilde standing in front of him wearing a beautiful white gown and was holding a bouquet of white roses. She had on her head a tiara made of white roses as well. He saw that he was lying in beautiful garden. He got up and ran to her and kissed her passionately. He looked at her as he was holding her face. She looked up at him and said: 'There is a way…There is a way.' She began to walk backward pulling her fingers to her. Duo stood there not understanding what she means. He began walking towards her…but a great white space was in front of him. He walked deeper into it. He blinked and couldn't find Hilde anywhere. He started running and suddenly stopped and opened his eyes.
When he opened his eyes, he saw that he was in the balcony, holding a flyer of some sort. He pulled it up to his face and saw that it was a flyer for a traveling agency. It read 'Want to win a trip of a lifetime! You could win a trip to anywhere in the universe.' It finally hit him. He could win this trip to earth, and Heero would be able to hack into their mainframe and make them the winners. They could change their identities and act just as tourists.
He was too excited! He ran to Heero's room and called out his name. Heero was nowhere in sight. He called out his name again. "HEERO!!" He ran to the balcony of his room and called out again. "HHHHHEEEEEEEEEERRRRRROOOOO!!!"
"Jeez…you don't have to yell! I'm right here!" Heero called out while poking his finger in his ear to get a sense of hearing. He was sitting on a chair, with no shirt on and his foot resting on the ramp.
"Oh sorry, I didn't see you!!" Duo said as he approached Heero. "Look, I told you there is a way!"
Heero took the flyer and examined it. He looked at Duo from the corner of his eye. "This is the way to get to earth?" he looked at it again. "And what makes you think that we're going to win."
"You…you will make Dave Fletcher and Harry Akira win the contest! They're both 21 and they are out of jobs right now and th…" Duo was stopped by Heero.
"Hold on, you are going to make me hack in their system and make who win?" He said with on eyebrow up.
"Dave Fletcher and Harry Akira…why don't you like the names?" Duo said backing away.
"I am so sorry…I am not going as someone named Harry A-something! And besides hacking was something I did when I was with her and I can't do it again, Duo!! I want to forget her not be reminded of her again."
"Please, Heero, if you do it…you would be able to see her again! And I would be able to see Hilde again too! Please, Heero, please…" Duo sat beside Heero's chair. He had on his puppy-eyed face. Heero looked at him, and began to feel sorry for him.
He shaked off the feeling. "NO, Duo, I can't!!" he said harshly and walked out on him.
Duo sat looking at the beautiful scenery of the fake ocean and the fake trees and the fake beach. He knew the real ocean, beach and trees where his love was: on Earth. He cursed himself and questioned his god why he was born on a colony. He began to sob and ripped off the cross. Heero stood by watching everything. He now felt very guilty. They both wanted to go to earth, but he turned down their dream. He walked out of his room, not realizing that the flyer is still in his hand.
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Howard stood watching his men work on peacemillion. It was a wreck after the battle between Heero and Zechs. He was putting it off and didn't want to work on it any more. He finally realized that he had been working for too long and that he needed time off and wanted to travel to other colonies.
"Howard, how is it coming?" someone called out from the dark.
"Who is this?" he asked looking through his sun glasses.
"God, you don't recognize an old friend? You are getting too old!!" Doctor J came out and greeted him.
"You telling me that I'm old? Look at you!! Besides I'm going to travel, J! There is no reason to stay in this business!" Howard anawered.
"You are absolutely right! I want to come with you!" Doctor J demanded.
"Why not? But only under one condition…"
"What's that?"
"Please cut your hair and start wearing clothes like me!" they both bedan to cackle and laugh.
"Sure thing!!" they continued to laugh.
"Doctor J?" Heero called out. Doctor J turned around and looked for the source of the voice.
"Heero?" Doctor J looked very surprised.
"I need you to help me with something!" Heero said in low voice.
"Sure…sure, Howard do you mind if we use your office?" Doctor J looked at Howard in a puzzled way.
"Yes, of course…I mean, no, I don't mind and yes, you can use it!" Howard answered. They walked off and Howard was looking at them. He was surprised that Heero asked Doctor J for help instead of demanding it and surprised that he didn't pull a gun to his head.
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"What is it my boy?" Doctor J began.
"I don't know what to do…Duo wants to go to earth…but I know it's a very dangerous risk!!" Heero said looking at the floor and finally noticed the flyer was still in his hand.
"Are you feeling okay? You don't seem okay!!" Doctor J was concerned.
"No, I'm not, I love her and I want to see her so badly…but I don't know what to do…I'm in Limbo!!" Heero answered.
"Who, my boy, who do you love?"
"Relena…"
"Oh, but you know you can't really do anything about it!! You will be killed!!"
"Yes, I know, but I really want to see her…I can't live without her…"
"And what does Duo got to do with this?"
"He found this flyer and wants me to hack in and rig the contest so that we can win!" he held up the flyer. Doctor J walked close to him and took it out of his clammy hands.
"Oh, well, then why not? Are you afraid?"
"I don't know anymore…"
"I think you are. You are afraid of what will happen to you and to Relena, and same goes to Duo. I must say, Heero, this is a side of you I have never seen. You told me that this would be a dangerous risk, and you are a risk taker…I am confused."
"So am I. I don't know what to do…please tell me what to do, father!"
Doctor J finally realized that Relena did this to him. She made him mellower and very expressive of his feeling. He knew this because he would never call him 'father' in a million years. "Heero, com here, I have been taking care of you ever since you were a boy, and I would be thrilled to see you settled down with a loving wife and children maybe…but I cannot make your decision for you…this is your destiny, not mine! And remember any decision you do, you know I will behind you every step of the way!!"
"Doctor J, I have already made my decision…I will go!! I cannot hold it back anymore!! I will go!!" Heero decided.
"Is there anything I could do?"
"Yes…change the way I look!!"
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Duo sat leaned back to the ramp of the balcony. He saw a figure walk in on him. He was a tall blonde man wearing blue jeans and unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt. He had green eyes, it looked like Quatre.
"What are you doing here Quatre?" Duo asked.
"I came to take you to the airport!!" the man answered.
"Why? So you can go to earth and leave me here?" Duo looked ahead of him.
"No…so we both can go!! Get up off your ass and lets go, Dave!!" Duo examined the man.
"Heero?" Duo narrowed his eyes trying to look for a similarty bettwen him and Heero.
"Yes…but my name is Harry Akira!!"
Duo jumped up and hugged him. "Why are we going to the airport now? The trip isn't for weeks!"
"Well, we have to go change you and get your social card…that will take weeks!! Besides I haven't done any hacking yet!! We have to go to Doctor J right now so we can change your look!! Let's go!!"
Duo was happy that Heero finally agreed! He wanted Heero to be as cheery as he is right now…but he knew that when he sees her Everything will change.
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Duo was on the phone. "You said on your stupid flyer that we could go any where in the universe!"
"But sir, you are from the colony and you know that you are forbidden to go to earth!" answered the other side of the phone.
"I don't care, I want to go to earth and that is my final decision, you understand me!!! That is your problem not mine!!" Duo began to be aggressive.
"And how will we send you there…sir?"
"I don't know, send us with the shipment of people that are going to earth. Look, deal with it and make it happen or you'll regret picking me to win the contest." He hung up.
"What happened?" Heero asked, eating a blueberry muffin.
"They don't really know if they can!!" "It sounded pretty intense!"
"Yes, the damn guy was getting on my nerve!!"
"So do you think they will allow us?"
"They better…"
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[2 weeks later]
"Got your card?" Heero asked.
"Check!" Duo answered
"Your clothes?"
"Check…but I'm not falling for this one again" Duo saw Heero smile…that took him by surprise.
"Your gun?"
"What? No, Heero, no guns…just a good vacation!! Please!!" Duo grabbed Heero's bag and saw it was filled with guns. He emptied it out and filled it with some of his clothes.
"But, Duo…"
"No, Heero, no guns!! We are going to have fun and see…" he stopped because he knew that would turn Heero around from his cheery state.
"See them, right? Why didn't you say it?" Heero closed his bag, picked it up and walked out.
"Heero, we are going because of that, aren't we? Why are you being an ass now?"
"BECAUSE…because, I don't know what to do or say when I see her, and what if Zechs finds out? What am I going to do?"
"Heero…you are just being paranoid, and nervous!! You'll know when you see her…if you love her as you say you do you'll know what to do…believe me!!"
"I hope you're right, Duo!!"
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[Many hours later, they are in the space shuttle]
Heero and Duo looked around on the faces of the people leaving for earth. They were sobbing and crying. They all didn't want to leave the colonies. The judgement was taken without considering how the people leaving their homes on the colonies would feel. There was no vote, but a decision was decided for the people.
They began to walk to their seats. Heero spotted a little girl, her face was crossed. He placed down his stuff, left Duo to see the girl.
"Is there something wrong?" he asked sweetly.
"No, go away!" the girl answered.
"Well, you don't look too happy to go back home!" he said.
"That's because I don't want to! I have friends here…family…even pets!! I HATE earth!" she yelled.
"That's pretty harsh…have you ever been to earth?"
"OF COURSE…I was born there!!"
"Oh, yes, silly me!! But I know you'll like it!"
"No I won't, I hate it already!! I don't want to go to earth…I want to stay here!!" She began to tear.
Heero wiped her eyes. "Belive me, you won't have to stay in earth for long!!" he gave her a little kiss on the cheek and walked off.
Heero sat beside Duo. "Duo, we have to do something!! We can't let these people live lives they don't want to! We will lead them to rebel against the leaders!!"
Duo looked at him. He looked absolutely serious. He agreed and leaned back to the back of the seat.
