Chapter Ten

Heero woke up to find himself tied down to what it looked like a hospital bed. Turning his head slowly he saw a IV needle connected to a tube. Looking up the tube saw a bag full of liquid. He didn't know precisely what that liquid was but had an approximate idea, they were probably drugging him.

Slowly, his brain started giving him the input he needed. He remembered being captured. He also remembered that Dr J was involved in whatever they intended to do with him. That scared the heck out of him. If Dr J had planned something for him, surely was not going to be pretty.

He tried to get rid of the tapes that held him down but found he could not tear them. He was about to start thinking of a plan to get out of there when he heard the room's door being opened.

"Good morning Heero…I hope you slept well…" Dr J said. Behind him there were a couple of people. One small guy with scruffy blond hair and light blue, clever eyes that looked at Heero with a strange mixture of curiosity and malice. The other one was very tall and looked as strong as the other looked clever.

"Go on…we have to start the training as soon as possible…" said the small guy talking to the big one.

"Ok…How much do you want me to hurt him?" asked the big guy talking to Dr J.

"Not too much…just enough to piss him off…but remember that tomorrow we will start the physical training so we do not want him to have too many broken bones…" replied Dr J.

Heero thought that he was hallucinating. What the hell where they talking about? Heero was to find out soon enough for the big guy pushed a button making the hospital bed to move to a vertical position, leaving Heero hanging from the tapes that held his wrists, neck and legs to the bed. After this, the big guy punched him hard on his stomach. Heero winced slightly. He realised that probably that was only the beginning. He was right. The giant kept hitting him and, essentially, beating the crap out of him. Heero thought that he would have not stopped had it not been because Dr J commanded him to.

"Enough. Now, Heero, I know you can still hear me. I want you to understand that we are doing it for your own good…We have a good plan to make the people from the colonies finally happy and fully independent and we need you for it…"

"Dr J…why?" Heero managed to say.

"We will tell you later. Now, I want you to try to rest. This is the last chance you get before we start the training for real…" the scientist replied.

With this the three men left the room. They did not even bother to put Heero back in a horizontal position so they left him hanging from the bed.

As soon as they left, the room went all dark. They started playing really loud hardcore music, then they stopped. Then they re-started but this time a completely thunderous sound of machines, guns being fired, mobile suits…those were war sounds, they kept alternating them with the hardcore music. The room started going freezing cold…then roasting hot…Heero remembered what this was…it was the first stage of the training he had to go through when he first met Dr J. He expected what happened next. That horrible phrase being repeated over and over again:

"Anything that fights you, is your enemy. Anything that tries to kill you, is your enemy…" and so on.

This time though, there was a new sentence:

"Anything that tries to convince you're wrong, is your enemy. YOU WILL KILL ALL YOUR ENEMIES!"

Heero tried for as long as possible to ignore, in this order, the pain from the wounds, the noise and the phrase, he even tried to shut himself down and sleep but a sensor located on his head 'told' the bed and it shook it violently every time he tried so he wouldn't fall asleep. He tried to think about what they were injecting him…it was probably some kind of serum that would strengthen him but…as he clearly remembered…would provoke a breakdown to his brain…this, together with the mental and physical torture he knew would have to endure 24 hours a day for as long as it took so he would be unable to feel anything anymore…

The only two things Heero didn't know about were, Dr J's plans and the fact that he had come up with a much improved training method he was testing on Heero for the first time.

He was going to be the perfect soldier. Again. Only that this time he would not fail any mission. Never.