Notes for this chapter: Uh... Enjoy it? Thanks for the single review so
far! .; (No flames though, so I should be happy?) I decided to go ahead
and keep a little shonen-ai hints, so you may notice a few in this, but
it won't be a major part of the story.
We didn't get off to a very good start, but it only got worse. If only I
hadn't been so secretive...
*******
A.C. 198
Duo Maxwell was working on repairing a short in the knee joint of a
construction suit when Quatre and Trowa finally returned. Cockroach-brow
had scared them away. Trowa was in the Colony with the circus (Hilde was
still trying to beg the silent clown into getting her free admission),
while Quatre was there on business (or more likely to visit Trowa). "Oi!
Trowa! Pass me that wire cutter, would you?" he called down as soon as the
tall boy was close.
Getting the requested took, Trowa handed it up in silence and the Shinigami
replied a thanks before going back to work.
"Dorothy mentioned something about Virgos?" the blond Winner boy voiced
from below after a few moments.
"Hai! Hai!" Duo responded, still finish up the repairs, so most of his
attention was on the various wires. "I ran across part of a Virgo. Since
that girl, Relena, wants to destroy all of 'em, I sent her a message. Looks
like cockroach-brow's workin' for her."
"Oh." Quatre voiced almost too softly for Duo to hear where he was. There
was a few moments of silence below until he added, "Did she say where she'd
be staying?"
Forcing blue eyes away from the work, Duo glanced down at the blonde
millionaire and the killer clown. Why was Quatre so interested in that
creepy girl who nearly killed him back on Libra? Trowa did not seem
surprised, in fact, the boy even nodded lightly when Duo met his eye.
"She didn't say. But she's probably staying in that building Relena always
does." The princess herself had visited the area a few times, and almost
each time she dropped in to see him and Hilde, or more accurately, to as
where Heero might be. Duo really hoped Quatre didn't like creepy-brow.
Though watching him follow Trowa around like a lovesick puppy was getting a
little old. He was never going to let anyone do that to him. Male or
female. He may not have his Deathscythe anymore, but he was Still
Shinigami! And no pretty face was going to turn him into a love-starved
pup.
"Where's that?" To Duo's shock, the question came from Trowa, not Quatre.
They both wanted to see her then? This was getting kind of interesting!
"Lemme finish this up and I'll take you guys!" he called back down to the
two and quickly connected the wires he needed to, made sure they wouldn't
spark a fire if he left them alone, then jumped down. "Come on. You two
really shouldn't hang around here so much or Hilde'll find you all jobs!"
"I heard that, Maxwell!" a yell came from off in the distance near the
shop.
"Oi. Busted. Move it, Qua-chan, Tro-kun."
He got the two of them out before Hilde could reap vengeance, or whatever
her mood happened to be right then. He liked to tease her, but honestly she
was his best friend.
Relena always stayed in the nicest area of the Colony, so that's where he
lead the other two pilots. The building was as tall as most around it,
stretching well over 30 stories. He kinda hoped Dorothy's room was near the
top floor. The elevator was outside the building and nearly all glass. Very
cool! Unfortunately who they saw in the lobby negated any purpose to go on
the elevator.
Dark blond hair, fancy dress, and a large entourage marked the presence of
Relena Peacecraft. When she saw the three Gundam pilots enter she
immediately broke conversation with one of her groupies and moved towards
them.
"Relena-san!" Quatre said brightly, bowing in front of her. "I didn't know
you were in the Colony." Trowa just nodded in her direction.
"Hey!" Duo supplied, "Did you come here with forkbrow?"
"Dorothy? No. I arrived prior to Dorothy. You've seen her already then?"
Relena didn't bother to give any formal greetings and she looked more then
a little concerned.
"Relena-san? What's wrong?" Quatre caught on to the concern as well. Not
that that was a surprise.
"Yeah, we saw her not three hours ago." Duo added in while he could.
"Three hours? I only saw her here an hour ago..." Relena signed and closed
her eyes briefly. Quatre asked his question again and she opened her eyes
with a start. "Oh, Quatre-san. I'm sorry. It's just... Dorothy. I think she
might be planning to do something. She's been stealing the weapons she's
supposed to be having destroyed."
What? Duo glanced to the other pilots and noticed the shocked and hurt look
that suddenly crossed Quatre's face. Trowa just watched, and was the first
to speak, "How did you find out?"
"I didn't. Heero did. He sent me a message telling me just two days ago."
Relena shook her head, no doubt a little burned that it took a possible act
of war for Heero to contact her.
"Damn. Roach-chan's got some explaining to do!" Duo said rather loudly.
"I tried to talk to her, but she took one look at me and ran."
Ran? That didn't seem like the Dorothy he'd heard about. Though, if she
had, the reason would be obvious. The look of betrayed knowledge was all
over Relena.
"We'll help you look for her." Quatre immediately offered. Trowa nodded in
agreement, but Duo waved his hands in immediate protest.
"Hey! Shit, I came here to snicker at you two and demon-brow, not go on a
wild goose chase! 'Sides, if she's been running an hour she's probably on a
friggin' transport by now."
Relena gave him a quick out (and gain a point in his book!), "You don't
have to. And I think she might try to go back to set up the last
transaction."
Duo was about to jump on that excuse to go when Trowa butted in, "Relena.
How many weapons does she have?" Leave it to the mostly silent one to ask
the good questions. Hrmpt!
There was a reluctant pause from the Former Queen of the World, "According
to Heero, she has taken enough to have well over a thousand Mobile Dolls,
about six hundred Virgos, the rest are Taurus suits. And at least a hundred
other manned suits of most the types. He isn't too sure on the numbers, and
thinks there might be more. Dorothy knows how to cover her tracks pretty
well. He doesn't even know where she's storing them."
A thousand mobile dolls? Oi. "Shit." is all Duo voiced on the matter, but
that was tame compared to his thoughts at the moment. If it had been a
hundred he probably would have cheered and said something about target
practice. But a thousand was pushing it! They didn't even have Gundams
anymore!
Cobalt eyes flickering towards his fellow pilots, he saw Quatre looking sad
and disappointed. What? Did he think she was a good guy? One look at her
proved she wasn't good guy material. She was actually worse then Heero!
Before this got worse, Duo decided to bail for now. If Dorothy was going
after one last supply, she'd have to go to the shop and get the frequency.
And he'd left Hilde to take care of things.
"You three have fun looking. Tell me how it goes!" He didn't want to be
left out if this turned into something big. Hopefully the Preventors had
scrapped together a Deathscythe for him. He wouldn't mind a little action.
He just hoped that it didn't erupt into a war again.
They let him go, and he hurried back to the shop. But upon arriving he
found out he left the others a little too late.
Hilde was pushing herself up off the floor of the front office when he made
it inside and he immediately went to help her, "Shit, Hilde, you okay?"
"Yeah... I've gotten hit harder." She started to rub at the back of her
head and flinched away from a wound there. When she drew her hand back
there was a light trace of blood.
Duo pushed hair aside to get a look, but it wasn't that bad, which was
good. If it had been much worse he would have had to kick Dorothy's ass.
"You should check into a doctor, but I think it just grazed your scalp.
Dorothy?"
"Yeah. She wanted the frequency of the scavenger you had contacted. I
wouldn't have given it to her, but she pulled a gun..."
"Don't worry. It doesn't matter." He helped her up and over to a chair
before adding, "I may have to be gone for a while. Can you finish up the
repairs we got lined up?" If this was going to erupt into another war... he
certainly wasn't going to let it be fought there.
Hilde watched him for a few moments, then nodded, "Yeah, Duo. I can handle
things. A bump like this won't keep me down."
"No shit." Duo grinned, straightening and starting towards the desk to get
a few things that he would need if he was going to try to catch Dorothy
before she got out of the Colony.
"Dorothy was on Libra, wasn't she?" Hilde asked suddenly.
"Yeah. She worked with the Romafeller foundation on Earth and the White
Fang in Space. You remember seeing her?" he was looking for his back up
communication transmitter, which would have the frequency. Hilde probably
gave her the primary.
"Vaguely." she said, before musing, "Romafeller, White Fang and now Relena
and the Peace Government. She certainly allies with groups in highest
power. Kind of funny, since all three were fighting each other at one
time."
"Yeah. But somehow I doubt she's that devoted to peace." Stealing weapons,
pointing guns at people... it all hinted towards the possibility that she
was about as devoted to the peace effort as her grandfather obviously had
been. Finally, he found the transmitter and pocketed it, then went looking
for his own hand gun. Just incase Dorothy was going to be gun happy.
"Be careful, Duo." Hilde said as he fixed the gun behind his back, secured
in place with his belt.
"I'm always careful."
==========================================================================
Next part: Um... Duo chases after Dorothy. Quatre and Trowa catch up. Bad
stuff happens. o.o;; Oh, and you may notice, each little second begins with
a little First Person narrative. This one was really small, when compared
to the first one. Some will be longer.
far! .; (No flames though, so I should be happy?) I decided to go ahead
and keep a little shonen-ai hints, so you may notice a few in this, but
it won't be a major part of the story.
We didn't get off to a very good start, but it only got worse. If only I
hadn't been so secretive...
*******
A.C. 198
Duo Maxwell was working on repairing a short in the knee joint of a
construction suit when Quatre and Trowa finally returned. Cockroach-brow
had scared them away. Trowa was in the Colony with the circus (Hilde was
still trying to beg the silent clown into getting her free admission),
while Quatre was there on business (or more likely to visit Trowa). "Oi!
Trowa! Pass me that wire cutter, would you?" he called down as soon as the
tall boy was close.
Getting the requested took, Trowa handed it up in silence and the Shinigami
replied a thanks before going back to work.
"Dorothy mentioned something about Virgos?" the blond Winner boy voiced
from below after a few moments.
"Hai! Hai!" Duo responded, still finish up the repairs, so most of his
attention was on the various wires. "I ran across part of a Virgo. Since
that girl, Relena, wants to destroy all of 'em, I sent her a message. Looks
like cockroach-brow's workin' for her."
"Oh." Quatre voiced almost too softly for Duo to hear where he was. There
was a few moments of silence below until he added, "Did she say where she'd
be staying?"
Forcing blue eyes away from the work, Duo glanced down at the blonde
millionaire and the killer clown. Why was Quatre so interested in that
creepy girl who nearly killed him back on Libra? Trowa did not seem
surprised, in fact, the boy even nodded lightly when Duo met his eye.
"She didn't say. But she's probably staying in that building Relena always
does." The princess herself had visited the area a few times, and almost
each time she dropped in to see him and Hilde, or more accurately, to as
where Heero might be. Duo really hoped Quatre didn't like creepy-brow.
Though watching him follow Trowa around like a lovesick puppy was getting a
little old. He was never going to let anyone do that to him. Male or
female. He may not have his Deathscythe anymore, but he was Still
Shinigami! And no pretty face was going to turn him into a love-starved
pup.
"Where's that?" To Duo's shock, the question came from Trowa, not Quatre.
They both wanted to see her then? This was getting kind of interesting!
"Lemme finish this up and I'll take you guys!" he called back down to the
two and quickly connected the wires he needed to, made sure they wouldn't
spark a fire if he left them alone, then jumped down. "Come on. You two
really shouldn't hang around here so much or Hilde'll find you all jobs!"
"I heard that, Maxwell!" a yell came from off in the distance near the
shop.
"Oi. Busted. Move it, Qua-chan, Tro-kun."
He got the two of them out before Hilde could reap vengeance, or whatever
her mood happened to be right then. He liked to tease her, but honestly she
was his best friend.
Relena always stayed in the nicest area of the Colony, so that's where he
lead the other two pilots. The building was as tall as most around it,
stretching well over 30 stories. He kinda hoped Dorothy's room was near the
top floor. The elevator was outside the building and nearly all glass. Very
cool! Unfortunately who they saw in the lobby negated any purpose to go on
the elevator.
Dark blond hair, fancy dress, and a large entourage marked the presence of
Relena Peacecraft. When she saw the three Gundam pilots enter she
immediately broke conversation with one of her groupies and moved towards
them.
"Relena-san!" Quatre said brightly, bowing in front of her. "I didn't know
you were in the Colony." Trowa just nodded in her direction.
"Hey!" Duo supplied, "Did you come here with forkbrow?"
"Dorothy? No. I arrived prior to Dorothy. You've seen her already then?"
Relena didn't bother to give any formal greetings and she looked more then
a little concerned.
"Relena-san? What's wrong?" Quatre caught on to the concern as well. Not
that that was a surprise.
"Yeah, we saw her not three hours ago." Duo added in while he could.
"Three hours? I only saw her here an hour ago..." Relena signed and closed
her eyes briefly. Quatre asked his question again and she opened her eyes
with a start. "Oh, Quatre-san. I'm sorry. It's just... Dorothy. I think she
might be planning to do something. She's been stealing the weapons she's
supposed to be having destroyed."
What? Duo glanced to the other pilots and noticed the shocked and hurt look
that suddenly crossed Quatre's face. Trowa just watched, and was the first
to speak, "How did you find out?"
"I didn't. Heero did. He sent me a message telling me just two days ago."
Relena shook her head, no doubt a little burned that it took a possible act
of war for Heero to contact her.
"Damn. Roach-chan's got some explaining to do!" Duo said rather loudly.
"I tried to talk to her, but she took one look at me and ran."
Ran? That didn't seem like the Dorothy he'd heard about. Though, if she
had, the reason would be obvious. The look of betrayed knowledge was all
over Relena.
"We'll help you look for her." Quatre immediately offered. Trowa nodded in
agreement, but Duo waved his hands in immediate protest.
"Hey! Shit, I came here to snicker at you two and demon-brow, not go on a
wild goose chase! 'Sides, if she's been running an hour she's probably on a
friggin' transport by now."
Relena gave him a quick out (and gain a point in his book!), "You don't
have to. And I think she might try to go back to set up the last
transaction."
Duo was about to jump on that excuse to go when Trowa butted in, "Relena.
How many weapons does she have?" Leave it to the mostly silent one to ask
the good questions. Hrmpt!
There was a reluctant pause from the Former Queen of the World, "According
to Heero, she has taken enough to have well over a thousand Mobile Dolls,
about six hundred Virgos, the rest are Taurus suits. And at least a hundred
other manned suits of most the types. He isn't too sure on the numbers, and
thinks there might be more. Dorothy knows how to cover her tracks pretty
well. He doesn't even know where she's storing them."
A thousand mobile dolls? Oi. "Shit." is all Duo voiced on the matter, but
that was tame compared to his thoughts at the moment. If it had been a
hundred he probably would have cheered and said something about target
practice. But a thousand was pushing it! They didn't even have Gundams
anymore!
Cobalt eyes flickering towards his fellow pilots, he saw Quatre looking sad
and disappointed. What? Did he think she was a good guy? One look at her
proved she wasn't good guy material. She was actually worse then Heero!
Before this got worse, Duo decided to bail for now. If Dorothy was going
after one last supply, she'd have to go to the shop and get the frequency.
And he'd left Hilde to take care of things.
"You three have fun looking. Tell me how it goes!" He didn't want to be
left out if this turned into something big. Hopefully the Preventors had
scrapped together a Deathscythe for him. He wouldn't mind a little action.
He just hoped that it didn't erupt into a war again.
They let him go, and he hurried back to the shop. But upon arriving he
found out he left the others a little too late.
Hilde was pushing herself up off the floor of the front office when he made
it inside and he immediately went to help her, "Shit, Hilde, you okay?"
"Yeah... I've gotten hit harder." She started to rub at the back of her
head and flinched away from a wound there. When she drew her hand back
there was a light trace of blood.
Duo pushed hair aside to get a look, but it wasn't that bad, which was
good. If it had been much worse he would have had to kick Dorothy's ass.
"You should check into a doctor, but I think it just grazed your scalp.
Dorothy?"
"Yeah. She wanted the frequency of the scavenger you had contacted. I
wouldn't have given it to her, but she pulled a gun..."
"Don't worry. It doesn't matter." He helped her up and over to a chair
before adding, "I may have to be gone for a while. Can you finish up the
repairs we got lined up?" If this was going to erupt into another war... he
certainly wasn't going to let it be fought there.
Hilde watched him for a few moments, then nodded, "Yeah, Duo. I can handle
things. A bump like this won't keep me down."
"No shit." Duo grinned, straightening and starting towards the desk to get
a few things that he would need if he was going to try to catch Dorothy
before she got out of the Colony.
"Dorothy was on Libra, wasn't she?" Hilde asked suddenly.
"Yeah. She worked with the Romafeller foundation on Earth and the White
Fang in Space. You remember seeing her?" he was looking for his back up
communication transmitter, which would have the frequency. Hilde probably
gave her the primary.
"Vaguely." she said, before musing, "Romafeller, White Fang and now Relena
and the Peace Government. She certainly allies with groups in highest
power. Kind of funny, since all three were fighting each other at one
time."
"Yeah. But somehow I doubt she's that devoted to peace." Stealing weapons,
pointing guns at people... it all hinted towards the possibility that she
was about as devoted to the peace effort as her grandfather obviously had
been. Finally, he found the transmitter and pocketed it, then went looking
for his own hand gun. Just incase Dorothy was going to be gun happy.
"Be careful, Duo." Hilde said as he fixed the gun behind his back, secured
in place with his belt.
"I'm always careful."
==========================================================================
Next part: Um... Duo chases after Dorothy. Quatre and Trowa catch up. Bad
stuff happens. o.o;; Oh, and you may notice, each little second begins with
a little First Person narrative. This one was really small, when compared
to the first one. Some will be longer.
