Gundam Wing: Dancing the WALTZ
Transmission Seven: Friends Never Betray Those Who Trust Them.

It wasn't long before the pilots found out where their friends were being held. Everyone was hanging over Heero's shoulder as he tried to find exactly where in the base the two were. The records made no indication that they were being held in a prison cell.

"Do you think they killed them?" Jade asked in a hushed whisper.

"Don't think that!" Mau tried to reprimand Jade for her pessimistic views. No one else wanted to admit it, but Jade had just voice a few silent fears.

"Their too important just to kill," Ling pointed out. Jade nodded in agreement, praying that Ling was right.

"Wait..." Heero mumbled as he typed away, everyone hushed and huddled tightly around Heero's shoulders. The tension was so thick it could have been cut with a knife.

"It says here... 'They were tortured, but they still remain tight-lipped. Although, I would imagine, that they won't remain this way for long.' Coming strain from... Marquise Mardox."

"God's we're doomed..." Jo growled.

"Why do you say that?" Trowa asked.

"Last time I checked, Duo had a low tolerance for pain...

"True..." Quatre nodded.

"Marquise... That's the leader of the organization, WALTZ," Trowa then said offhandedly.

"What dose that stand for?" Jo asked.

"World Association of the Last Terrorists, or something like that," Jade waved her hand as she answered.

"Then where the heck dose the 'Z' come in?" Quatre asked.

"What does it matter?" Mau asked, "What else dose it say Heero?"

"Umm... The fuck?" Heero sputtered. He rubbed his head and blinked.

"What is it?" Quatre asked.

"And I'm reading this strait from his personal logs, 'That boy with the braid, He tasted... How shall I put it? Sweet? The Chinese boy, his skin was so soft, I could have petted him for a hundred years. They whimpered every time that I touched them, it was most amusing. I shall have to address them against to night.' They guy's a queer!" Heero exclaimed, his voice was in a slightly higher pitch than it normally would have been.

"Whoa?" Dhirdre held up a finger as to tell everyone to hold their conversation while she processed the information, "You mean to tell me that a gay man just molested two strait guys?!"

"Exactly..." Heero shuddered along with Trowa and Quatre.

The girl exchanged glances, most of raised eyebrows or frowns.

"We've got to save them from that maniac!" Dhirdre exclaimed.

"For once I agree," Heero looked at the screen, "They really don't deserve that."

"Duo doesn't..." Ling muttered, "I dunno about Wufei."

"Ling!" Mau exclaimed.

"What?" The Chinese girl blinked innocently.

"You are so cruel!"

"I try..." She sighed and shrugged, which won her a slap across the back of the head by Mau and Jade.

"Well then let's go!" Quatre posed as he pointed in the general direction of the Gundams.

"First..." Trowa looked at Quatre with a skeptical look, "We need a plan."

"How about we ask for an exchange?" Mau threw out her idea.

"For information that is false!" Jade added.

Heero sat thinking, Jo was watching him arms crossed as usual, he made eye contact with her and she began to walk away.

"Okay, Jo's going to get the disk ready, In the mean time, I want all the Gundams up to speed. I have a feeling that if this doesn't work we're going to be fighting."

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Duo awoke to fin himself in a dark room; he was beginning to fear dark rooms. He tried desperately to move his arms and legs, but alas he was bound spread eagle style to a table. He was highly disoriented and couldn't tell which way he was facing. His braid wasn't hanging past his face so that meant that he was facing the floor. Maybe he was in anti-gravity room... he sighed and wiggled around a bit more. It was then that he realized that he wasn't wearing his clothes. From what he could feel, and judging by the draft coming up his legs, he was in a gown. More or less like the ones that you would find in a hospital. Chancing to speak, Duo called out into the dark void that surrounded his eyes, "Hey, 'Fei? You there? Anybody?"

He received silence as his own source of comfort. When a bright light shone into his eyes, Duo flinched involuntarily and expected to hear his molester's voice. Instead of the deep masculine voice that would now be engraved in his very nightmares, Duo heard a whine. As if something was cranking up, and it wasn't long before he figured out what that whine meant.

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Wufei woke up abruptly to screams echoing through his holding chamber. Moving, as he soon discovered, was a limited commodity seeing his legs and arms were bound spread-eagle. The room was covered in the same black void that Duo faced when he woke from his slumber. As Wufei's dark eyes darted around the room another ear piercing scream echoed around the room. He recognized the semi-deep voice; it was Duo's. He opened his mouth to talk but a bright light that shone into his eyes caused him instead to grunt. A whine started up in his ear and then a searing pain shot through his entire being. He then realized what was happening, his limbs were being pulled apart from his torso. His mouth opened and let out a scream to match the pain that blinded his very senses.

##

Trowa was resting from his work when over the television, which was always on in the brake room; a familiar face caught his eye.

"What's this?"

Instantly his brain put a name with the face, he stood transfixed as a message was sent.

"We are Gundam pilots 02 and 05," Duo's flat line voice floated into Trowa's unbelieving ears, "We will tell all we know about the Gundams unless..."

"...Unless the other eight pilots surrender themselves up to Marquise and his organization," Wufei's same monotone voice finished Duo's thought. Trowa put down his coffee and pinched his arm. When the pain receded he still saw the two on the TV, "That eliminates dreaming..."

Panic hit him as he dropped his coffee and darted out into the hall, nearly colliding with a passerby. Running at break-neck speeds Trowa ran to the Zero-gravity repair room. He impatiently had to wait for Purgatory to depressurize before he launched him self out into the hustle and bustle of the working dock.

"We've got a problem!" Trowa shouted load enough for everyone in the dock to hear. The noise stopped almost instantly as every turned an eye on Trowa.

"What are you going on about?" Jo didn't look up from her work on the 'informational disc'.

"They're using them!"

"Trowa..." Jade, who was closest, pushed her self off the handrail and floated over to Trowa, and thereby latching her self to his arm.

"Jade! Le'go!" He growled as he tried to shake the lavender from his arm. Alas, she remain clung, "Not unless you calm down and explain, calmly, what you're ranting about."

He set her a glare to kill but spoke as she had directed, "WALTZ has demanded that we surrender ourselves."

"Oh! Is that all?" Dhirdre rolled her eyes. Trowa snapped back, "No! I dunno what's going on but they had Wufei and Duo making the demands."

Jade released Trowa with a scornful look; "Stop making cruel jokes! This isn't the time!"

"I'm not!" he protested, "I'm not lying, really! I'm sure if you turned on the news it'll be everywhere!"

"Uh-huh..." Ling looked skeptical.

"'...Unless...'"

"'...Unless the other eight surrender themselves to Marquise and his organization.'"

The news reporter began to speak, "That's a demand from an organization run by the prominte war figure Marquise Mardox."

Heero flicked the television and looked at everyone with worry, "Trowa's right."

"I hate to say it, but, I told you so!"

"Stop being childish!" Jo quipped.

"What are we going to do now?" Mau asked, "We can't possibly go on with our previous plan!"

"That's where you're wrong," Heero replied.

"So we are?" Ling asked giving him the, 'I-think-you're-insane' look.

"Yes," Heero nodded ignoring her look, "If it doesn't work, we'll have a fight on our hands."

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Duo felt groggy, he was awake, at least now he was fully awake. If was kind of fuzzy but he vaguely remembered making some sort of demand. He shivered as a draft floated up his legs, "Damn him..." he muttered.

"You're awake I see my lovely braided-jewel!"

"Creep!" Duo hissed.

"Now, now, I didn't insult you, so don't' insult me!"

"I'll say what ever I god-damn please!" Duo's face contorted into disgust as a soft palm touched his cheek.

"Hush now," Marquise stood over Duo's scantly clad body.

"You get away from me!" Duo's voice floated a little higher as Marqiuse's hands busied themselves with untying Duo's robe.

"Hush, hush. You'll enjoy this."

Duo closed his eyes and tried to imagine himself in a happy place, his own happy place very, very far away. But his mind snapped back to reality when something very wet skated down his stomach... heading south. When he thought things couldn't get any worse, they didn't. They got better, an alarm sounded and Marquise was forced to leave Duo alone.

"I'll be back my deary, You can count on that."

The violet left the room only after giving Duo some decency and covering him back up.

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"They're not responding to my hails," Jade said as she watched the communication channels.

"Give them a minute," Heero retorted. It was then a rather annoyed voice came over the eight's COM systems.

"You've responded to my request faster than expected, you eight really are pathetic. You gave in with out some much as a fight!"

"You must be Marquise Mardox," Heero replied, ignoring the comment.

"Indeed, I am."

"We want our friends back!" Dhirdre growled.

"Now, that's not part of our little agreement."

"What agreement you jackass?" Jo snarled.

"Now miss, let's be civilized."

"I'll show you fucking civilized!" Jo's beam cannon was prepped.

"McCaller! Stand down! That's a damn Order!" Heero yelled into the COM system.

Jo snarled but did as told.

"Listen, Bub. I want to talk about this agreement," Heero said very tactfully.

"Okay then, let us talk!"

"How about an exchange," Heero ventured.

"What kind of exchange?"

"We surrender information about ourselves and the Gundams for our two comrades you are currently holding."

"Hum, how do I know I can trust it's good?"

"On my word and Gundam I swear it."

"Good thing Heero doesn't mind lying," Jade muttered to her self.

"Mind sending it to me first?"

"I'm not stupid," Heero growled, "Fair exchange, I hand you the disc and you hand over our friends."

A voice not as noticeable, but still audible came over the COM, "Don't trust him!"

Heero blinked, He recognized the voice but for some reason couldn't place it.

Marquise, glaring at Kirstain, responded, "I accept your offer. Come around to docking bay 15 and we shall have your friends ready."

The transmission cut, and like a gun, Marquise began to shoot orders, "Release the prisoners and fetch them their clothes. I want all systems on the ready; those pilots might try something. Get the back up systems on line and operational. Kirstain, If you ever step out of line again, I'll have you hung out to dry in OUTTER SPACE!"

With that the angry man stormed away leaving the crew in a state of confused frenzy.

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Wufei felt his wrist and ankles fall free of the constraints, "What?"

"Get dressed," His clothes were flung at him, "You've just been rescued."

Gently Wufei rubbed his wrist, massaged his shoulders and legs. After making sure nothing had been dislocated he dressed and stumbled to the door. The door slid open and he fell into the hands of the guards. He tried to brake free of the hard clamped hands on his shoulders, but he was still weak. Duo and his two escorts then joined them. As the envoy of six made their way to dock 15 the two right hand goons of Marquise stopped them.

"Mistress Trinity, Kirstain!" One blinked in surprise.

"Hold them still!" Kirstain bellowed, she ran a gadget in from of Wufei and then to Duo. She smiled and patted them on the back, "Do have a safe trip home!"

Trinity smiled evilly as she watched the six pass her by, "They're in place, there is no way they'll be able to escape us now."

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Heero, Trowa and Ling stood in front of foot soldiers as they waited for Duo and Wufei to appear. Heero held the disc; Trowa and Ling were there to accept their exchange items.

Marquise was standing not too far from the three; he was noting how excitingly wonderful it would be if he had the three of them in his custody. The girl would be a wonderful torture victim while the other two, well; he could have tons of fun with them.

"Sir! The captives as you requested!"

"Good," Marquise smiled at them and the two shuddered. Motioning for them to follow him, Marquise and the six advanced towards Heero, Trowa and Ling.

Ling and Trowa accepted the two boys as Heero handed over the disc.

"Ling..." Wufei hissed, "I can walk."

"I'll let you go once your settled safely inside my Gundam."

"Ling!" He hissed pleadingly.

"Zhùzui!" She hissed right back with a glare. He said nothing else as he allowed him self to be lead away. Duo accepted Trowa's helping hand, but he was still very weary.

##

"Good to see you guys again!" Jade chirped happily.

"Yeah," Duo smiled back, "Same here."

Trowa, Ling, Heero and Wufei now settled in began to talk and share happy smiles.

"Let's get out of here," Jo warned, "That's no 'you-suck-haha-loser' disk, It's a virus!"

"Damn..." Duo whispered.

##

With the Gundams departed Marquise smashed the disc. He grinned evilly, "Trinity, what's the report on the tracking bugs?"

"They're... still outside our door?" Trinity blinked as she looked at the same device she and Kirstain had swept over Wufei and Duo earlier.

"What?"

"SIR! We're under attack!"

"All hands battle stations!"

##

And thus the battle began. Duo and Wufei were scared witless. To say the least, they were not used to ridding backseat.

"Woman! What are you doing?" Wufei cried as Ling sent the Omen in to a death roll to avoid fire.

"Will you shut up! No back seat driving!" Ling growled as she kicked the foot controls, "Just hold the hell on and you'll be fine!"

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"ACK!" Duo covered his eyes, "TROWA! You're going to get us killed!"

Trowa didn't reply, he was to busy concentrating on not getting them killed.

Heero's voice soon came over every ones COM system, "Okay get ready for that ring formation!"

Jade squealed as she found her Gundam was completely surrounded by mobile dolls and manned-MS, "I wish I could! They've got me in a bubble and it's proving to be difficult to pop!"

Trowa easily fixed that, Heavyarms' shoulder rocket launchers opened up and he sent a few many missiles at Jade's bubble. It 'popped' on impact. The eight fighting Gundams situated themselves in their ring and proceeded with their plan.

"Okay, remember, this is a slow movement, we head for the neutral zone set up by the Preventers. Once there, WALTZ can't touch us unless they want a fight with the Preventers," Jo said over the beeping in her cockpit.

"Roger," Mau and the other agreed and they began to move slowly. All the while fending off Mobile Dolls and manned-MS.

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"They're heading for the neutral zone!" A commander on the radar system said as he looked up from his computer to face Marquise.

"Alright then, Trinity, Kirstain, take the Gundam prototypes out for a spin. Don't hurt them too bad loves."

"Yes my liege!" The two girls gave a quick bow before scampering off the bridge.

##

"Almost there!" Ling more or less screamed for joy as she took a glance at her strategical map.

"Thank god!" Quatre sighed.

"Wait, hold on. Two unidentified object approaching at top speeds," Wufei said his attention to Ling's radar map.

"Run a scan on it then, dumb ass!" Jo shouted at the Chinese man.

"Working..." Wufei bit his lip, he looked up panic, "Made mostly of Gundamium... They're Gundam prototypes!"

"Damn!" Jo cursed, "We've got to get out of here! Let's brake and hit the hyper-jammers!"

"Agreed I don't feel like taking them, wait for my mark!"

"They'll be within target range in sixteen seconds!" Mau called to Heero, she was beginning to sweat.

"NOW!" Heero screamed as Wing Zero took off his thrusters kicked into high gear.

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"They've broke formation," Trinity reported as she watched her radar.

"Stardust is launching long range homing missiles."

"Roger that Stardust, Twilight standing by to intercept damaged Gundams."

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"Brake attack!" Trowa yelled at Ling and Dhirdre, "You've got missiles on your tail!"

"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Ling kicked her thrusters on so hard the attacking mobile suit missed and ended up spinning around in space. Ling looked at her computer screen, "'Fei, Watch these temperatures, If my thrusters start to over heat, or even look like they are, Reroute all available energy to the cooling cells."

"Roger. Oh and woman, Don't call me 'Fei."

"Roger, 'Fei."

Dhirdre wasn't having such luck; the MD and manned-MS kept piling on. She hardly saw the missiles until it was too late. Sandnova nearly became reduced to a piece of floating scrap.

"Dhirdre!" Duo cried, "They got Dhirdre! I'm launching your clamps to tow!"

"Damn! That'll slow us down!" Trowa looked to his screen, "Maybe I can rerouted some spare energy..."

"Omen's launched its clamps!" Duo smiled happily.

Trowa's attention then was drawn to his radar, "LING! BRAKE THE LINE, WE'RE GOING T..."

Trowa never got to finish his sentence, Heavyarms and Omen took a direct hit and the occupants of the cockpits were knocked unconscious.

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"We got'em!" Trinity smiled a congratulation to Kirstain; "Twilight is engaging hyper jammers, ready to retrieve the scrap metal."

"Well, Damn!" Kirstain looked pissed.

"What?" Trinity asked.

"The explosion sent them into the neutral zone."

Twilight's hyper jammers died down as fast as they started up, "Damn."

"This is WALTZ command station, His Liege has requested that Twilight and Stardust return to base. There is no use to further chase them."

"Roger that Command station," Trinity sighed and turned Twilight toward home, "Twilight on its way."

"Stardust is also on its way."

##

When the eight Gundams reported back in there was much panic, "I don't care what you have to do, but you'd better bring this hunk of junk online and get this cockpit opened!" Jade screeched as she scaled Omen's battered armor. Quatre was scaling up Heavy arms and Mau was up Sandnova.

Jo was also screeching out orders, "I want a medical team down in docking bay 3 ASAP! All hands help secure those Gundams! I want all information sensor reading and computer data saved onto disc incase we have to scrap those systems!"

After while the 5 injured pilots were pulled from the rubble, battered, burned and looking very bloody. The medical team had to move the five to intensive care and the other five scurried around, praying their friends would be all right. The three totaled Gundams were put in their own holding rooms so that any radiation or dangerous gas leaks could be monitored and taken care of accordingly.

But at the end of the day every one was resting peacefully in some sort of bed, all tired or still unconscious

End Transmission...

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Authors Note:

Man-o-man! It's been a while since I've done anything with this. And this is the longest chapter yet! Yikes! I finished writing the entire story, but I'm still in the process of typing it up. I think you'll be pleased. I hope?

Oh, And you remember when Ling screamed a random word at Wufei? Some like 'Zhùzui' (The spelling might be off, dosen't support some symbols)? Well, that's actually Chinese for 'shut up' or 'be quite'. I thought I'd let you know. Oh, I still don't own Gundam Wing or any of the original characters such as Heero and Duo. But I do own Ling. So don't sue me! I'm saving up all my money for AWA!

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