"Sit down" she said , trying to prolong letting the whole problem out at once and waited till he did. "Now ... we need to know exactly what it was that your pilot was doing besides monitoring your activities"
Matt had been expecting she had been caught as she did not answer back but why were they asking him what she was doing. "Well , that we know of she managed to get us an inside look of the pilot we just brought in, why?"
"That is all you know of?" Sighed Une , but she knew that was it , they'd found nothing out of place at the station besides the hacked authorization codes to use that terminal.
"Well after she activated his communications screen we could not get a response out of her , now would you care to fill me in on what is going on?" This did not sound like it was just a minor problem but still it was not his job to jump to conclusions.
She proceeded to fill him in about finding Trel on the floor at the console and the information that was displaying on the screen , the only odd thing was what looked to be something was being isolated to be filtered out of the audio part of the whole transmission but it had never been completed and since then Trel had not been coherent enough to question about it either.
He pressed on about having other techs try to isolate it but she had a few that looked it over and could not even guess at what she had been doing , and were right now checking over the machine they had brought in for any unusual devises that could emanate an audio signal. Finally she dismissed him to rest , hoping to find out some information from their newly acquired guest but unsure if they would meet the same blank look that they would received from Trel when she had been asked the first time.
Matt left but instead of going to fill the group in he went to check Trel , wondering what it was that she was trying to isolate , or how she noticed it over the rest of them , after all she had relayed the whole thing to them had not she , or had she been hiding it from them. Just how far could they trust her , it was not like they had really questioned her when she could not recall any of the information that she should have known about whom was behind it or which Gundam held which pilot , not even where their hide out was so the question was why now , why when they were about to get one of the others did she suddenly start breaking rules and hacking systems.
The window let him see in to watch a restless form moving around on the bed , being watched over by Duo and Sally with concern while his mind whirled circles , the whole idea of having saved one now in question as it looked like they were freely letting an enemy move around within their hidden base , and even taking every device she had been brought in with had not stopped her from possibly getting information to the other side before she let them know she was 'keeping an eye on them'. He finally moved to the door and opened it , letting himself in quietly as he gave Duo a small smile.
"Hey sorry man , I went looking for her but had no luck till I was called down here , did not know she had gotten up out of the chair" he said as he rubbed the back of his head , not that he had been surprised about where she was but to risk it without the chair had shocked him.
"She said anything yet?" Asked Matt , dropping his eyes.
"No , but if she doesn't settle soon Sally is likely to tie her to the bed , for her own protection" he said as he rolled his eyes , he had never seen being strapped to a bed as a protection thing.
Matt grunted his own disapproval "If she wakes I'll be in the War room going over what we got from the second one"
Just as he was turning to leave Duo asked "So who did we get this time anyway , no one was brought in..."
"It was not one of ours , we got one of the morons from the last battle so I'm sure he has found himself a cosy cell by now" which was where just moments ago he had been considering they all should end up until he had some answers , with that Matt left , making his way back to where he had spent the entire day to try to figure out just what was on that transmission that she had tried to keep from everyone else.
The room was empty when he arrived which he expected but a copy of the entire activities had been brought and left for him on the main table , he intended to get answers but it was not like he would be using anything they had not already thought of and the exact same machines were in here as what they already used.
He took the disk and went to the hanger , what they did not have before was the opposing Gundam and although he was not about to trade his in for a new one maybe it could identify what no one else was catching on to. They had managed to replace a few melted circuit boards and reset the systems that had shut down before they overloaded but it was far from being fully functional.
He did not care though , it was able to do what needed to be done so he climbed in and inserted the copy he had , letting it run all the analysis that would need to be done to it , but again it drew a blank and was getting him a little frustrated , once again he reviewed what had been typed in but half of it made no sense at all and did not look like any hack code he had ever seen.
Finally he got out and just stood there thinking , audio was one form of communications , that was what she specialized in so who did they have on their side that could do the same , who knew her way of thinking that would understand this whole mess. He smiled , walked across the bay and up towards his own Gundam but stopped short looking Ocasta over , it was the only other thing that even had a chance at understanding it he thought as he fed the disk in and let the computer read it through , bringing the same data up that had just been displayed in the other machine.
The difference was that it recognized certain commands the other had not , there in the codes was what looked like a frequency setting , or half of one but that was just before the whole script stopped , for some reason a certain frequency was trying to be located and silenced but with only half of it here that still left huge gap in what she was trying to do. He took the disk out and was gone , if it took him all night he was going to find out what it was and why she was trying to keep it from being noticed.
When he once again came back to their work room the whole group was there , having just returned from supper and managed to bring a plate back for him.
"Hey illustrious leader , how much do we need to post for bail , you know ... to free her from San Quentin" grinned Jason , but Matt's sour face soon wiped the smirk away.
"Oh come on , if she could do that with all the others we could get our group back quicker" Niki added , surely everyone else seen that as well.
"Take it up with Sally , not my department" he said flatly as he went to the furthest computer in the room and put the disk in , bringing up the part he had of the frequency and having the computer scan the transmission for anything within it that would match up to that part he had.
"Wow , guess Midii really ripped him a new hole" whispered Jason to Quatre , but the later was not so sure , it seemed a little colder in the room then a mere reaming would have brought and even Une was not that evil anymore.
Heero had a good idea what had happened , it was exactly what she said she was going to do the first time something did not seem right , they had kept it from the rest but there was always the possibility that getting what you wanted would end up disappointing you in the end.
Nikita was definitely not going to sit around and walked out of the room to find out what the hell was going on , Matthew was becoming as closed lipped as Heero was supposed to be and that did not bode well for them as a team , well what was left of it anyway.
It did not take long for Niki to find what she was looking for as she walked right into the room that Matt had left maybe an hour ago looking for answers no one else had given her. "Duo , I hate to make this look repetitious but what is going on?"
She received a blank look as Duo tried to figure that question out "Going on where , all I've known has been going on in here for the last ..."he paused and looked at the clock "almost two hours now " he snickered , as much as he hated being in a hospital or having anything to do with them for that matter he could definitely plead innocence while he had been here.
"Okay , she's in here again , Matt is in a real foul mood and way non-social , Une is no where to be found and I still don't have any idea what is going on" she ended , drawing a breath after her babble fit.
"Ummm , well I'll answer what I can , we think she aggravated her wound landing her on the floor , can't help you on Matt but he was quiet when he was in here too , no clue on Une and you can join the club cause neither do I" he smiled kindly , hoping she'd at least crack a smile.
"That didn't help" she sighed defeated , pulling a chair up to sit down and take a break for a moment. "Man , some days it just doesn't pay to pull your head out of the sand"
The God of Death just grinned , so she could make a joke after all , she was usually the one that seemed serious but he guessed one would have to have a sense of humor with Wufei around. "Yeah , but better then to get it in your eyes right?"
That did get a laugh out of her "You know it's no wonder she just refused to give up on getting back here , it really is the only place we actually have a purpose and someone that can make us smile ... " she jumped up , finally getting an idea" that's it , you just gave me exactly what I was looking for , catch ya later" she said as she turned and headed back to the rooms , there was one person that even Matt couldn't push away with his sour mood.
She raced to Relena's room , knocking quietly as it was growing late and she had no idea if the girl would even still be awake.
"It's open" was the muffled reply.
Niki opened the door and rushed in , shutting it so no one would find out that she was likely meddling in things like a busy body.
It took little explaining for Relena to be willing enough to pull Matt from the mood he seemed to have fallen into , she had actually hoped it was Matt at the door when Niki had knocked but at least she had a reason to go see him and not look foolish , plus she now knew they had all come back safely.
He never even looked up when she entered which was going to make this just that much better , she walked up behind him and waited , looking to the screen in front of him but was not going to wait on it to finish before she acted , finally she pulled a chair up to sit beside him. "So what are we looking for?"
"I'm not exactly sure what I am looking for , but you should be asleep , it is late and we'll likely be up early again tomorrow" he didn't want to tell her what he suspected but then he really had not been one to keep secrets.
"Oh well , not the first time for me but you didn't answer my question , plus there really is no one else here so I can at least keep you company" she reasoned , she wasn't a vice foreign minister for nothing after all.
"Yeah , guess so" was all Matt could think to say , not that he was about to complain for that small amount of comfort.
"It looks like your scanning for something , like my radio when I want the local news on the plane" she guessed , the rapidly changing numbers slimming down to just two that were being looked for , almost like a game of slots.
"There is something on this disk that Trel was working on but she didn't get to finish it , just trying to figure out what it was" was his calm reply but she was right , if it was a frequency there would have to be something sending it , hopefully it would lead him to where the others were.
The last two filled in quickly giving the whole thing finally which he finally smiled at as he had the computer scan for that certain one and finally getting one of his questions answered as it found it. The only thing left was to track it down now.
"Well it looks like you got it , but why is it reading so strongly?" She asked , it was reading it like it was right in the room with them.
Matt took the disk out and it faded , but not by much and seemed to be going non stop. "Now that is weird , it shouldn't be that strong unless it was right above us , the needle is right in the red"
Just then the vid phone rang drawing both of them out of their research. Sally Po was on the other end when Matt finally picked the line up.
"I would have called you earlier but I had my hands full , your pilot woke but unfortunatly we had to sedate her again " she said , a small cut just above her brow showed she had indeed been busy.
He dropped his head , not exactly wanting to say the obvious. "Would she be any easier to control in a cell?"
Sally wasn't about to ask that of him but it might save on the injuries in the long run. "No , we can keep her out , but that isn't my call to make , it's yours"
"What about Duo , he is right there so why not ask him?" This was exactly what Matt had been trying to avoid , that kind of decision to take out one of his own team.
"He left right after the incident ... actually she seemed to calm down some after he left..." He cut the call off right there , going back to the computer and a wide eyed Relena as he tracked the emiter for that frequency he had just scanned for.
"Damn , no wonder she is going crazy , it's here ..." he said as he turned and headed for the hanger with Relena hot on his heals , having a good idea where it was coming from but still unsure as to how it was affecting her even if they had brought the thing in.
Duo was already ahead of them , yelling at the crew that was below him on the floor of the hanger as he started pulling things apart , she had told him to stop the noise cause it hurt but he didn't understand it , that was when she told him that it had to be inside the black Gundam , she hadn't heard it before she patched into that system so it was the only place she could think of but he hadn't waited to find out what was making it , he intended to pull the whole thing apart if he had to just so that scene didn't happen again.
That was when Matt had come in with Relena , telling them to kill all power to that Gundam which he had earlier insisted be turned on. That caught Duo's attention as he stuck his head out from the blast shield with a piece of the interior in his hands.
"Duo , kill the breakers up there , it's a transmitter or something" Matt yelled as he pulled the cord from the diagnostic machine , not willing to give it one ounce of power to run on.
Duo looked at the bar that he held in his hands then back to the circuit box with a smile , he did say kill it after all. Duo jammed the bar into the box and watched as sparks flew before he backed up and quickly exited. "Hey , how'd you find out , I thought this was a one man party here"
"Well she kind of told us , to bad it took me this long to figure it out" he smiled , no wonder she had tried to filter it out , it wasn't to keep it from them but to stop it from hurting , now all they had to find out was how something like that was doing it.
"Man , you guys have really gotta keep me updated on things like this" he laughed , he was more relieved then happy "I'm going back to the room , maybe Sally has some answers by now"
"You know ..." started Matt as he turned to Relena "... it has been awhile since we took a walk outside of this place , feel like some star watching?"
"Nothing like looking at stars to realize how small you really are huh?" She laughed , hooking her arm through his and let him lead the way.
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Oh , and one more thing , I love to twist a story so it is fun to keep people on the edge of their seats. Banchy is almost done the next HP fic so it should be up soon ( I should know cause I usually end up typing it *L*) and it looks like she is going to throw twists at us as well so I hope we don't end up giving anyone heart failure here okay.
Catch ya later
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