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Chapter 6: Readjustments
"We can only confirm the disappearance of Heero Yuy and Trowa Barton," Sally explains to the disheartened Gundam pilots.
"Sally are they dead or alive," Wufei demands, "If you have the proof, we can handle it."
"Wufei!" Sally fires back, "We have do not have much evidence to even think of them actually being dead.there is probably more to that explosion than meets the eye."
"Well, how do you expect us to go on without knowing for sure," Quatre pleads.
"I'd thought you'd never ask," Lady Une states as she strolls in. "I'm afraid only Duo Maxwell will be able to find this one out though."
"What have you got planned, Colonel Une?" Wufei commands.
"We have been monitoring movements in that area since the battle took place," Une briefs. "Many ships have entered and only a few returned, and those were different than the ones that entered. Something is going on a we again need to find out, not only for Preventers sake, but Heero and Trowa's."
"What is the caper?" Duo smirks as he beams to be back in the saddle again.
"You are to take DeathScythe back to that point and cloak, wait for a ship to be leaving the area and follow it," Une directs, "It should take you to one of Vanguard's plants, do a little espionage and try to find out as much information as you can."
Lady Une then proceeds to fill Duo and the others in on the specifics on the mission. Sally words that Heero and Trowa probably aren't dead still ringing in their heads.
---Meanwhile (SM - Outside of Andrew's Arcade)---
Makoto is standing on the corner quite early in front of Andrew's quietly anticipating the morning's events.
"Here awfully early, don't you think Makoto," some yells down the street.
"Trowa?" Makoto responds turning to see Minako with a sarcastic look on her face.
"Trowa? Man, are you that smitten?" Minako pokes bringing a little blush to Makoto's face. "And, is that a little extra make up this morning?"
"You took some extra time yourself, I see," Makoto fires back defensively.
"Well that is beside the point, you have a bigger crush than I have," Minako returns fire.
"And what evidence do you have, may I ask?" Makoto snarls once again on the defensive.
"Shh, shh, here they come.how do I look," Minako says quickly while straightening up.
"Like a dork," Makoto jabs one last time as she notices the two boys coming down the street with laptop briefcases in hand looking even better than they did the day before.
The two seem deep in thought individually like the other wasn't even next to them. 'Interesting,' Makoto thinks, 'None of us can stay five seconds without saying anything with the others around, and these guys look to make it a point of not talking when people are around.'
"Hi guys, over here!" Minako shamelessly barks down the street embarrassing Makoto something fierce. Trowa looks over with pity to Makoto, while Heero looks pretty annoyed at her making yet another scene.
The two reach the spot and before Minako can embarrass them again, Makoto asks, "Shall we go?" receiving a nod from each boy.
"Tell us about yourselves," Trowa kindly asks quickly turning to Heero to see if he noticed his plan.
Heero returns the glance approvingly. 'Make them talk, so they aren't suspicious of why we don't.not bad, Trowa,' Heero contemplates.
"Well, I have lived here most of my life and have had a pretty nice upbringing. I spend most of my time with my friends. The group numbers up to ten," Makoto says, mostly talking to Trowa who listens patiently.
'Damn, ten girls, this maybe wasn't that great of an idea in the first place,' Trowa thinks, but without letting on to Makoto what he's thinking.
"That is about the extent of it for me, how about you guys," Makoto implores.
"Yeah, we don't know too much about you at all," explains Minako.
"We are from the countryside where we grew up pretty boring lives, so we moved to the city to get a better education and live a little more," Heero explains as though that had been the complete truth. "That is basically it for us, right Trowa?" Heero states turning to Trowa who simply closes his eyes and nods as though he was disappointed in not telling it. When in actuality he thought, 'I wonder how much Heero anticipates about what they are going to ask us.'
"Well, here the school is," groans Minako.
"Shall I walk you two to the office?" Makoto kindly asks.
"No thank you; we will probably see you later, thanks again," Trowa replies.
"OK, see you later and have a good day," Makoto tells them as she and Minako walk to their first class.
---Meanwhile (GW - Just outside of the incident site)---
"Man, this is really boring," Duo complains as he and DeathScythe sit in open space waiting on a passing ship.
"Reminds me when DeathScythe needed the final touch ups after our escape from moon base," reminisces Duo.
Duo checks his radar and notices two craft heading towards the Black Out point. He reminds himself he is waiting on something actually returning from there. He sighs to himself at how improbable it is. Just as the though crosses his mind the radar sets off an alarm. A ship is leaving the Black Out point.
Duo does a quick scan making sure DeathScythe is cloaked and ready to go which quickly comes back affirmative. He follows the ship back toward earth. However the ship stops at a new resource satellite created by the new mining company, Terranean.
"Terranean, huh. I thought that their owner, Audric, was a little too smart to be trusted." Duo mulls over aloud.
Duo scans the area and finds they keep a few asteroids nearby to mine on. He lands DeathScythe on one of the asteroid's dark side. He then attached a space movement belt and drifts to the satellite. He enters through a limited access door and quick finds a vent that should lead to everywhere on the satellite. This satellite was obviously produced by a major company because it had the same layout as two others Duo has infiltrated. He knew exactly where to go.
'This should be the main office,' Duo thinks as he negotiates the vents. He reaches in his shirt pocket and clicks and audio recorders button as he notices a meeting is taken place.
"Triage, have you made contact with Audric, yet?" a man in a black suit with a dark blue tie interrogates.
"I haven't made contact physically with Audric yet, but the shipments are being made as scheduled and despite how the second one went, the others are going quite smoothly," Triage informs.
"As the second in command of this company, Triage, you should've already made contact with Audric," the man in black complains. "The stockholders are beginning to worry that Audric hasn't been making as regular of appearances as their used to."
"Don't worry about them, in some time we won't need them anymore, besides Audric needs to oversee the operations over there more importantly." Triage darkly replies.
"On that subject, what happened to the Gundams," the man in black asks.
Duo ears perk up knowing this is the full reason he is here. He makes sure his audio is picking everything up as he listens.
"Well, those that returned told us they chased after Audric's shuttle and cleared the gate, but the transport cloaked and the Gundams went the other way. They haven't been seen since and most likely have no idea what is going on." Triage updates.
"Wonderful, now we should focus on to other agendas," the man in black starts.
Duo has heard enough and he slides out to go report what he's heard.
'So they know where they are going, but how and what are they planning,' Duo ponders as he returns to base. ---Meanwhile (SM - School)---
"Class please rise.bow.and please be seated," the teacher starts. "We have two new students joining us today.could you boys introduce yourselves and tell us a little about yourselves."
"Trowa Barton," Trowa plainly says.
"Heero Yuy," Heero almost darkly says.
"OK.well you boys may take the seats next to the smartest girl in the class who will help you with anything you need. Please introduce yourself Ami," the teacher commands.
"I am Ami, I am not necessarily the smartest in the class, I just have the highest grades," Ami humbly passes on.
Trowa nods and takes his seat, while Heero sits and looks into Ami eyes that seemed to be locked on him. He nods and Ami's attention focuses back on the class. 'Interesting girl,' Heero reflects, 'Wonder why she is like that.'
The class continues and after a while the lunch bell rings. All of the classes file into the cafeteria and standing in the lunch line Ami smiles and asks, "Would you guys like to sit with me and my friends?" "Well actually," Trowa starts hoping to lower the boom softly to this sweet girl but Heero cuts him off.
"We would be pleased," Heero finishes. Trowa underneath his emotionless expression is shocked. 'Why in the hell would Heero want to be around this girl.we normally stay as far away from everybody is possible,' Trowa tries to comprehend, 'I might have to remind him later Relena is waiting for him to return in case he's forgotten.'
"Great, just a few friends of mine will be there but don't mind them. You are my guests," Ami explains.
Ami walks ahead of them in line and Heero turns to Trowa and mouths lightly, 'Trust me, I need to see something.'
'What the hell is going on,' Trowa ponders. Then, all of a sudden as him and Heero step out into the main cafeteria hall they hear something.
"Trowa! Over here, Trowa," Minako yells over the lunchroom.
Trowa whispers to Heero, "She really has no shame."
Just as Heero turns to him and whispers, "You're not going to believe this."
Trowa turns and noticed a bewildered Ami standing next to Minako obviously asking if they have met Heero before. 'The ten girls,' Trowa thought to himself but only noticing seven.
"This maybe easier than I thought," Heero mutters to Trowa.
The two walk over and set their tray down at the table designed for ten packing nine.
"Let me introduce everyone," Ami requests to receive a nod from each of the boys, "From the far end we have Rei, Hotaru, Chibi-Usa, Usagi, Makoto and Minako whom you've met before, and of course me, Ami."
"What are your names?" Rei says cutting Ami off whose expression becomes sullen. Heero notices it and furrows his brow.
"I am Heero and this is Trowa," Heero says looking at Rei and then back to Ami, as Trowa busies himself eating. He turns back to the group listening to their lunchtime conversation about school and other various happening in their lives.
Heero glances at Trowa, which in turn returns the gaze as they notice how innocent all these girls are. 'Some place to live,' Trowa thinks to himself. Their conversation continues until Heero notices the conversation turn to Ami; who quickly directs the conversation away from her.
"Ami, why are you like that?" Heero asks boldly.
"What? Why am I like what Heero," Ami asks defensively.
The girls look to Heero questioningly while Trowa just continues eating almost knowing what is coming.
"You seem to not like to be recognized for who you are, which I can already see is unique," Heero responds with a penetrating look on his face.
"Well.Heero, I just don't think I'm as great as people say I am or think I am. I'm a pretty good judge that I am all right, but need to get better," Ami returns with uneasiness in her voice.
A silence follows as the table is shocked at how quickly Heero has gotten to the heart of Ami and her theology.
"Ami, you need to see yourself for who you are and begin to really appreciate yourself. I want you to think about that today," Heero blasts her quietly without one stutter.
Ami looks into Heero's eyes stunned, but then gives him a sweet smile, "Thank you Heero, I will."
Makoto looks at Trowa who nods and mouths to her, "He changes everyone around him for the better."
The girls all notice this and sit there amazed except for Ami who is now sporting a great smile.
The lunch bell rings and they all head off in their respective direction thinking about the odd events of the day.
Chapter 6: Readjustments
"We can only confirm the disappearance of Heero Yuy and Trowa Barton," Sally explains to the disheartened Gundam pilots.
"Sally are they dead or alive," Wufei demands, "If you have the proof, we can handle it."
"Wufei!" Sally fires back, "We have do not have much evidence to even think of them actually being dead.there is probably more to that explosion than meets the eye."
"Well, how do you expect us to go on without knowing for sure," Quatre pleads.
"I'd thought you'd never ask," Lady Une states as she strolls in. "I'm afraid only Duo Maxwell will be able to find this one out though."
"What have you got planned, Colonel Une?" Wufei commands.
"We have been monitoring movements in that area since the battle took place," Une briefs. "Many ships have entered and only a few returned, and those were different than the ones that entered. Something is going on a we again need to find out, not only for Preventers sake, but Heero and Trowa's."
"What is the caper?" Duo smirks as he beams to be back in the saddle again.
"You are to take DeathScythe back to that point and cloak, wait for a ship to be leaving the area and follow it," Une directs, "It should take you to one of Vanguard's plants, do a little espionage and try to find out as much information as you can."
Lady Une then proceeds to fill Duo and the others in on the specifics on the mission. Sally words that Heero and Trowa probably aren't dead still ringing in their heads.
---Meanwhile (SM - Outside of Andrew's Arcade)---
Makoto is standing on the corner quite early in front of Andrew's quietly anticipating the morning's events.
"Here awfully early, don't you think Makoto," some yells down the street.
"Trowa?" Makoto responds turning to see Minako with a sarcastic look on her face.
"Trowa? Man, are you that smitten?" Minako pokes bringing a little blush to Makoto's face. "And, is that a little extra make up this morning?"
"You took some extra time yourself, I see," Makoto fires back defensively.
"Well that is beside the point, you have a bigger crush than I have," Minako returns fire.
"And what evidence do you have, may I ask?" Makoto snarls once again on the defensive.
"Shh, shh, here they come.how do I look," Minako says quickly while straightening up.
"Like a dork," Makoto jabs one last time as she notices the two boys coming down the street with laptop briefcases in hand looking even better than they did the day before.
The two seem deep in thought individually like the other wasn't even next to them. 'Interesting,' Makoto thinks, 'None of us can stay five seconds without saying anything with the others around, and these guys look to make it a point of not talking when people are around.'
"Hi guys, over here!" Minako shamelessly barks down the street embarrassing Makoto something fierce. Trowa looks over with pity to Makoto, while Heero looks pretty annoyed at her making yet another scene.
The two reach the spot and before Minako can embarrass them again, Makoto asks, "Shall we go?" receiving a nod from each boy.
"Tell us about yourselves," Trowa kindly asks quickly turning to Heero to see if he noticed his plan.
Heero returns the glance approvingly. 'Make them talk, so they aren't suspicious of why we don't.not bad, Trowa,' Heero contemplates.
"Well, I have lived here most of my life and have had a pretty nice upbringing. I spend most of my time with my friends. The group numbers up to ten," Makoto says, mostly talking to Trowa who listens patiently.
'Damn, ten girls, this maybe wasn't that great of an idea in the first place,' Trowa thinks, but without letting on to Makoto what he's thinking.
"That is about the extent of it for me, how about you guys," Makoto implores.
"Yeah, we don't know too much about you at all," explains Minako.
"We are from the countryside where we grew up pretty boring lives, so we moved to the city to get a better education and live a little more," Heero explains as though that had been the complete truth. "That is basically it for us, right Trowa?" Heero states turning to Trowa who simply closes his eyes and nods as though he was disappointed in not telling it. When in actuality he thought, 'I wonder how much Heero anticipates about what they are going to ask us.'
"Well, here the school is," groans Minako.
"Shall I walk you two to the office?" Makoto kindly asks.
"No thank you; we will probably see you later, thanks again," Trowa replies.
"OK, see you later and have a good day," Makoto tells them as she and Minako walk to their first class.
---Meanwhile (GW - Just outside of the incident site)---
"Man, this is really boring," Duo complains as he and DeathScythe sit in open space waiting on a passing ship.
"Reminds me when DeathScythe needed the final touch ups after our escape from moon base," reminisces Duo.
Duo checks his radar and notices two craft heading towards the Black Out point. He reminds himself he is waiting on something actually returning from there. He sighs to himself at how improbable it is. Just as the though crosses his mind the radar sets off an alarm. A ship is leaving the Black Out point.
Duo does a quick scan making sure DeathScythe is cloaked and ready to go which quickly comes back affirmative. He follows the ship back toward earth. However the ship stops at a new resource satellite created by the new mining company, Terranean.
"Terranean, huh. I thought that their owner, Audric, was a little too smart to be trusted." Duo mulls over aloud.
Duo scans the area and finds they keep a few asteroids nearby to mine on. He lands DeathScythe on one of the asteroid's dark side. He then attached a space movement belt and drifts to the satellite. He enters through a limited access door and quick finds a vent that should lead to everywhere on the satellite. This satellite was obviously produced by a major company because it had the same layout as two others Duo has infiltrated. He knew exactly where to go.
'This should be the main office,' Duo thinks as he negotiates the vents. He reaches in his shirt pocket and clicks and audio recorders button as he notices a meeting is taken place.
"Triage, have you made contact with Audric, yet?" a man in a black suit with a dark blue tie interrogates.
"I haven't made contact physically with Audric yet, but the shipments are being made as scheduled and despite how the second one went, the others are going quite smoothly," Triage informs.
"As the second in command of this company, Triage, you should've already made contact with Audric," the man in black complains. "The stockholders are beginning to worry that Audric hasn't been making as regular of appearances as their used to."
"Don't worry about them, in some time we won't need them anymore, besides Audric needs to oversee the operations over there more importantly." Triage darkly replies.
"On that subject, what happened to the Gundams," the man in black asks.
Duo ears perk up knowing this is the full reason he is here. He makes sure his audio is picking everything up as he listens.
"Well, those that returned told us they chased after Audric's shuttle and cleared the gate, but the transport cloaked and the Gundams went the other way. They haven't been seen since and most likely have no idea what is going on." Triage updates.
"Wonderful, now we should focus on to other agendas," the man in black starts.
Duo has heard enough and he slides out to go report what he's heard.
'So they know where they are going, but how and what are they planning,' Duo ponders as he returns to base. ---Meanwhile (SM - School)---
"Class please rise.bow.and please be seated," the teacher starts. "We have two new students joining us today.could you boys introduce yourselves and tell us a little about yourselves."
"Trowa Barton," Trowa plainly says.
"Heero Yuy," Heero almost darkly says.
"OK.well you boys may take the seats next to the smartest girl in the class who will help you with anything you need. Please introduce yourself Ami," the teacher commands.
"I am Ami, I am not necessarily the smartest in the class, I just have the highest grades," Ami humbly passes on.
Trowa nods and takes his seat, while Heero sits and looks into Ami eyes that seemed to be locked on him. He nods and Ami's attention focuses back on the class. 'Interesting girl,' Heero reflects, 'Wonder why she is like that.'
The class continues and after a while the lunch bell rings. All of the classes file into the cafeteria and standing in the lunch line Ami smiles and asks, "Would you guys like to sit with me and my friends?" "Well actually," Trowa starts hoping to lower the boom softly to this sweet girl but Heero cuts him off.
"We would be pleased," Heero finishes. Trowa underneath his emotionless expression is shocked. 'Why in the hell would Heero want to be around this girl.we normally stay as far away from everybody is possible,' Trowa tries to comprehend, 'I might have to remind him later Relena is waiting for him to return in case he's forgotten.'
"Great, just a few friends of mine will be there but don't mind them. You are my guests," Ami explains.
Ami walks ahead of them in line and Heero turns to Trowa and mouths lightly, 'Trust me, I need to see something.'
'What the hell is going on,' Trowa ponders. Then, all of a sudden as him and Heero step out into the main cafeteria hall they hear something.
"Trowa! Over here, Trowa," Minako yells over the lunchroom.
Trowa whispers to Heero, "She really has no shame."
Just as Heero turns to him and whispers, "You're not going to believe this."
Trowa turns and noticed a bewildered Ami standing next to Minako obviously asking if they have met Heero before. 'The ten girls,' Trowa thought to himself but only noticing seven.
"This maybe easier than I thought," Heero mutters to Trowa.
The two walk over and set their tray down at the table designed for ten packing nine.
"Let me introduce everyone," Ami requests to receive a nod from each of the boys, "From the far end we have Rei, Hotaru, Chibi-Usa, Usagi, Makoto and Minako whom you've met before, and of course me, Ami."
"What are your names?" Rei says cutting Ami off whose expression becomes sullen. Heero notices it and furrows his brow.
"I am Heero and this is Trowa," Heero says looking at Rei and then back to Ami, as Trowa busies himself eating. He turns back to the group listening to their lunchtime conversation about school and other various happening in their lives.
Heero glances at Trowa, which in turn returns the gaze as they notice how innocent all these girls are. 'Some place to live,' Trowa thinks to himself. Their conversation continues until Heero notices the conversation turn to Ami; who quickly directs the conversation away from her.
"Ami, why are you like that?" Heero asks boldly.
"What? Why am I like what Heero," Ami asks defensively.
The girls look to Heero questioningly while Trowa just continues eating almost knowing what is coming.
"You seem to not like to be recognized for who you are, which I can already see is unique," Heero responds with a penetrating look on his face.
"Well.Heero, I just don't think I'm as great as people say I am or think I am. I'm a pretty good judge that I am all right, but need to get better," Ami returns with uneasiness in her voice.
A silence follows as the table is shocked at how quickly Heero has gotten to the heart of Ami and her theology.
"Ami, you need to see yourself for who you are and begin to really appreciate yourself. I want you to think about that today," Heero blasts her quietly without one stutter.
Ami looks into Heero's eyes stunned, but then gives him a sweet smile, "Thank you Heero, I will."
Makoto looks at Trowa who nods and mouths to her, "He changes everyone around him for the better."
The girls all notice this and sit there amazed except for Ami who is now sporting a great smile.
The lunch bell rings and they all head off in their respective direction thinking about the odd events of the day.