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Chapter 5- On the town
Alex and Duo arrived at a junkyard owned by Duo and Hilde. Alex looked at the sign that said "Danger: Sharp Objects" and took more of a look when inside the yard filled with scrap metal. The thought of that sign in a junkyard was pointless since people shouldn't be that stupid, but then again he remembered how foolish tended to be.
"Wow... didn't know you were a junkyard dealer as well..."
"Yes ever since I was in the war during AC-195." Duo faced the main building with his office inside. "Yo Hilde, I'm back."
Hilde walked out of the main office of the junkyard.
"Hey Duo," Hilde saw Alex. "Who is that with you?"
"Oh him?" Duo pointed to Alex, who was by now had his eye on a television in a pile of junk. Alex was completely fascinated by the discovery, but didn't notice Hilde.
"Awesome this is an original RCA TV from the year AC-100," Alex said aloud. A big smile came over his face. "There is hardly any of these in existence anymore."
Duo who was the only one that heard him and held back his frustration, "His name… is Alex Cros."
Upon the mention of the name, Hilde walked back inside the building and came back out with a box of parts. Hilde walked over to Duo and handed him the box of parts.
"What are these for?" Duo's eyes cringed with the extra burden on him.
"Their spare parts from mobile suits. You might be able to use them."
"But I don't need this stuff," Duo thought that Hilde had gone mad.
Hilde whispered and pointed toward Alex, "I heard about the incident earlier today, I thought Alex's mobile suit could use them. Aside from that, didn't he save you from having to make repairs of your own."
"Yes, I guess." Duo let out a sigh and gave into her pressure.
Alex saw another item in the pile, "wow!" Alex jumped over to another pile after he spotted another antique.
"But, why give me this stuff?" Duo glared at her, " and not directly to him."
"Simple, you're the one..." Hilde put her hand behind her head. "Well… I forgot my reason for giving it to you."
"Oh brother." Duo put the box on the ground, "If you don't mind, we'll pick this up later."
"Where you off to?" Hilde glanced down at the box and then looked back up at Duo.
"Anywhere," Duo walked over to Alex and grabbed him by the arm.
Alex looked at Duo, "What is it?"
"We're going on the town."
Duo walked off with Alex being dragged behind him.
An hour later, Duo and Alex were in front of a cowboy style tavern.
"Duo may I ask, why are we here?" Alex raised an eyebrow. He thought the entire idea of a cowboy tavern pretty ridiculous.
"This place is good for a couple of laughs," Duo had a little smirk on his face.
"That still doesn't answer my question," Alex looked at Duo seriously, but without a glare.
Duo walked into the tavern, and Alex reluctantly followed as music blared around him. They proceeded up to the bar and sat down on barstools. Alex ordered Pepsi and Duo ordered water, so the bartender gave them a strange look. People who came here were supposed to drink alcohol; not "normal drinks" but it was an order. He quickly poured and served the orders. The two of them started to drink while they sat on bar stools. They faced the crowd and watched for a little bit. The crowd's dance patterns kind of puzzled Alex for a few minutes, but brushed it off. Alex looked at Duo and lowered his glass.
"Duo."
"Yes?"
"In the AC-196 incident, weren't all of the gundams destroyed?" This had been on Alex's mind since he saw Deathscythe Hell for the first time in battle.
"Correct," Duo drank some more water.
"Then, how are you still piloting Deathscythe Hell?" Alex reached back and put his glass on the bar.
"The Preventors rebuilt all five of the gundams and gave some modifications." Duo took another sip.
"You mean the others have their gundams as well?" Alex eyes opened up a little with anxiety behind them.
"Yep, they do. Wufei is the only one who works for the Preventors though. The rest of us, help out when necessary." Duo then remembered something that Lady Une mentioned right before he had docked earlier that day. "Oh yeah, Wufei and Quatre are coming in tomorrow to talk to you."
"Why would they want to talk to me?" Alex froze a little. He had talked to a head officer of the Preventors, who used to be one of the top officials of the Organization of the Zodiac, but this was new. Gundam pilots were about to come to talk specifically to him. This feeling didn't go over in Alex's mind very well.
"They both read the documentation Lady Une sent them, and are curious about you. Well… that is after Heero looked at them, he saw something wrong in the fact that you had average skill as a pilot, yet were able to destroy so many Taurus on your first try." Duo looked Alex straight in the eye, "So am I."
"You're going to hold it against me?" Alex fell out of his seat.
"No, I am the only one who saw you fight and know your personality… to a degree. I don't hold anything against people unless I have solid proof."
"Well that's good to hear," Alex let out a sigh of relief and got back into his barstool.
A guy in the crowd started to cause a disturbance in the tavern, and both Alex and Duo looked in that direction to see what was going on. The man yelled and knocked around a guy who was dating his ex-girlfriend. To Duo this was a normal disturbance, which didn't require any help from a gundam pilot.
"We shouldn't get involved."
Alex saw something different about the disturbance, but couldn't lay his finger on what it was exactly. Alex got up and started to walk toward the man.
"Hey, Alex. What are you doing?" Duo shouted and stood up out of his seat.
"Doing what I think I should do," Alex got to the man.
The man had pushed around the boyfriend enough that the guy could barely have gotten up. Alex tapped on the man's shoulders and the man looked at him.
"Stop this, there is no point to it."
He laughed at the idea of a kid that tried to tell him what to do. The man then punched Alex in the stomach and grabbed his shirt.
"Stay out of this," the man barked.
The man threw Alex and he crash-landed in rack of bottles on the other side of the bar where Duo had stood by. Duo looked over the bar and saw Alex out cold.
"This is going to be messy," Duo shook his head. Duo turned around to face the crowd, but didn't expect what happened next.
The main doors flung open in the tavern and a group of three guys in ski masks ran in carrying MP-5's. They fired into the crowd, and killed several people including the man who threw Alex into the bar. The rest of the people were ordered to get on the ground, and Duo complied.
"Of all the days to decide not to carry my gun," Duo grumbled after he reached down for his gun and didn't get anything.
The robbers went to the bar area and ordered the bartender to tell them where the manager was. By this time, Alex came out of unconsciousness and stood up to have a MP-5 pointed at his head, though he was still slightly out of it.
"Wow, is that your gun?" The idea of the gun pointed at his head finally got to him. He threw up his arms and knocked the gun out of the robber's hand. The MP-5 landed right by Duo's hands and, without hesitation, he picked up the gun and fired at the three robbers, all three were killed.
"Phew," Duo got up and dusted off his priest clothes. "I love my marksmanship."
"What exactly happened here?" Alex finally came into his right mind.
"I'll explain a little later," Duo began to walk toward the door while he still carried the MP-5. The crowd still feared for their lives and backed off even further.
Alex leaped over the bar and went after Duo. "What should we do about this?" He looked down at the dead bodies as he walked by them.
"Nothing. Let the cops handle this."
Duo threw the gun into a nearby gutter and left toward home. Alex followed closely behind him.
On a nearby rooftop, a man cloaked in shadows observed the two as they walked away. He began to walk closer to the edge of the roof, and got hit by some nearby light. The man wore a black spandex outfit, with a black belt woven into the suit and held a desert eagle on each side. He also had a black leather trench coat over his outfit. To top it off, this man had a black head cover, similar to that of scuba divers. A black veil that was woven into the head cover; this way no one could see his face from any angle, except from below even then shadows covered his face.
No thoughts ran through his mind and he was completely focused his sight on Duo and Alex. He came to realize that he had light on him and he slowly backed off into the darkness. He faded away slowly into darkness and vanished without a trace.
Chapter 5- On the town
Alex and Duo arrived at a junkyard owned by Duo and Hilde. Alex looked at the sign that said "Danger: Sharp Objects" and took more of a look when inside the yard filled with scrap metal. The thought of that sign in a junkyard was pointless since people shouldn't be that stupid, but then again he remembered how foolish tended to be.
"Wow... didn't know you were a junkyard dealer as well..."
"Yes ever since I was in the war during AC-195." Duo faced the main building with his office inside. "Yo Hilde, I'm back."
Hilde walked out of the main office of the junkyard.
"Hey Duo," Hilde saw Alex. "Who is that with you?"
"Oh him?" Duo pointed to Alex, who was by now had his eye on a television in a pile of junk. Alex was completely fascinated by the discovery, but didn't notice Hilde.
"Awesome this is an original RCA TV from the year AC-100," Alex said aloud. A big smile came over his face. "There is hardly any of these in existence anymore."
Duo who was the only one that heard him and held back his frustration, "His name… is Alex Cros."
Upon the mention of the name, Hilde walked back inside the building and came back out with a box of parts. Hilde walked over to Duo and handed him the box of parts.
"What are these for?" Duo's eyes cringed with the extra burden on him.
"Their spare parts from mobile suits. You might be able to use them."
"But I don't need this stuff," Duo thought that Hilde had gone mad.
Hilde whispered and pointed toward Alex, "I heard about the incident earlier today, I thought Alex's mobile suit could use them. Aside from that, didn't he save you from having to make repairs of your own."
"Yes, I guess." Duo let out a sigh and gave into her pressure.
Alex saw another item in the pile, "wow!" Alex jumped over to another pile after he spotted another antique.
"But, why give me this stuff?" Duo glared at her, " and not directly to him."
"Simple, you're the one..." Hilde put her hand behind her head. "Well… I forgot my reason for giving it to you."
"Oh brother." Duo put the box on the ground, "If you don't mind, we'll pick this up later."
"Where you off to?" Hilde glanced down at the box and then looked back up at Duo.
"Anywhere," Duo walked over to Alex and grabbed him by the arm.
Alex looked at Duo, "What is it?"
"We're going on the town."
Duo walked off with Alex being dragged behind him.
An hour later, Duo and Alex were in front of a cowboy style tavern.
"Duo may I ask, why are we here?" Alex raised an eyebrow. He thought the entire idea of a cowboy tavern pretty ridiculous.
"This place is good for a couple of laughs," Duo had a little smirk on his face.
"That still doesn't answer my question," Alex looked at Duo seriously, but without a glare.
Duo walked into the tavern, and Alex reluctantly followed as music blared around him. They proceeded up to the bar and sat down on barstools. Alex ordered Pepsi and Duo ordered water, so the bartender gave them a strange look. People who came here were supposed to drink alcohol; not "normal drinks" but it was an order. He quickly poured and served the orders. The two of them started to drink while they sat on bar stools. They faced the crowd and watched for a little bit. The crowd's dance patterns kind of puzzled Alex for a few minutes, but brushed it off. Alex looked at Duo and lowered his glass.
"Duo."
"Yes?"
"In the AC-196 incident, weren't all of the gundams destroyed?" This had been on Alex's mind since he saw Deathscythe Hell for the first time in battle.
"Correct," Duo drank some more water.
"Then, how are you still piloting Deathscythe Hell?" Alex reached back and put his glass on the bar.
"The Preventors rebuilt all five of the gundams and gave some modifications." Duo took another sip.
"You mean the others have their gundams as well?" Alex eyes opened up a little with anxiety behind them.
"Yep, they do. Wufei is the only one who works for the Preventors though. The rest of us, help out when necessary." Duo then remembered something that Lady Une mentioned right before he had docked earlier that day. "Oh yeah, Wufei and Quatre are coming in tomorrow to talk to you."
"Why would they want to talk to me?" Alex froze a little. He had talked to a head officer of the Preventors, who used to be one of the top officials of the Organization of the Zodiac, but this was new. Gundam pilots were about to come to talk specifically to him. This feeling didn't go over in Alex's mind very well.
"They both read the documentation Lady Une sent them, and are curious about you. Well… that is after Heero looked at them, he saw something wrong in the fact that you had average skill as a pilot, yet were able to destroy so many Taurus on your first try." Duo looked Alex straight in the eye, "So am I."
"You're going to hold it against me?" Alex fell out of his seat.
"No, I am the only one who saw you fight and know your personality… to a degree. I don't hold anything against people unless I have solid proof."
"Well that's good to hear," Alex let out a sigh of relief and got back into his barstool.
A guy in the crowd started to cause a disturbance in the tavern, and both Alex and Duo looked in that direction to see what was going on. The man yelled and knocked around a guy who was dating his ex-girlfriend. To Duo this was a normal disturbance, which didn't require any help from a gundam pilot.
"We shouldn't get involved."
Alex saw something different about the disturbance, but couldn't lay his finger on what it was exactly. Alex got up and started to walk toward the man.
"Hey, Alex. What are you doing?" Duo shouted and stood up out of his seat.
"Doing what I think I should do," Alex got to the man.
The man had pushed around the boyfriend enough that the guy could barely have gotten up. Alex tapped on the man's shoulders and the man looked at him.
"Stop this, there is no point to it."
He laughed at the idea of a kid that tried to tell him what to do. The man then punched Alex in the stomach and grabbed his shirt.
"Stay out of this," the man barked.
The man threw Alex and he crash-landed in rack of bottles on the other side of the bar where Duo had stood by. Duo looked over the bar and saw Alex out cold.
"This is going to be messy," Duo shook his head. Duo turned around to face the crowd, but didn't expect what happened next.
The main doors flung open in the tavern and a group of three guys in ski masks ran in carrying MP-5's. They fired into the crowd, and killed several people including the man who threw Alex into the bar. The rest of the people were ordered to get on the ground, and Duo complied.
"Of all the days to decide not to carry my gun," Duo grumbled after he reached down for his gun and didn't get anything.
The robbers went to the bar area and ordered the bartender to tell them where the manager was. By this time, Alex came out of unconsciousness and stood up to have a MP-5 pointed at his head, though he was still slightly out of it.
"Wow, is that your gun?" The idea of the gun pointed at his head finally got to him. He threw up his arms and knocked the gun out of the robber's hand. The MP-5 landed right by Duo's hands and, without hesitation, he picked up the gun and fired at the three robbers, all three were killed.
"Phew," Duo got up and dusted off his priest clothes. "I love my marksmanship."
"What exactly happened here?" Alex finally came into his right mind.
"I'll explain a little later," Duo began to walk toward the door while he still carried the MP-5. The crowd still feared for their lives and backed off even further.
Alex leaped over the bar and went after Duo. "What should we do about this?" He looked down at the dead bodies as he walked by them.
"Nothing. Let the cops handle this."
Duo threw the gun into a nearby gutter and left toward home. Alex followed closely behind him.
On a nearby rooftop, a man cloaked in shadows observed the two as they walked away. He began to walk closer to the edge of the roof, and got hit by some nearby light. The man wore a black spandex outfit, with a black belt woven into the suit and held a desert eagle on each side. He also had a black leather trench coat over his outfit. To top it off, this man had a black head cover, similar to that of scuba divers. A black veil that was woven into the head cover; this way no one could see his face from any angle, except from below even then shadows covered his face.
No thoughts ran through his mind and he was completely focused his sight on Duo and Alex. He came to realize that he had light on him and he slowly backed off into the darkness. He faded away slowly into darkness and vanished without a trace.
