This is a Gundam Wing Clamp Campus Detactives Crossover with shonanai. Oh and I don't own the cute boys I just use them temperarily.

Oh I forgot to tell you earlier but I'm changing the font on the seen changes for easier reading.

Chapter 13

Suoh stood pacing at the front of the Wave Center when Akira came to him. "Where's Kaichio?"

The ninja's reply was cut off by a sense of dread. He ran. In the back of the Wave Center wall he didn't spare a thought to the hole and jumped in. It was tight but short and opened into the back pumping room.

"Kaichio!" he called following his feeling. Soon he heard a grinding but it became distant, he followed it across the expanse. There he saw another hole but this had something in it. A pair of long pale legs where just inside and eerily still.

"Nokoru?!" he called nearly panicking. As he knelt down to carefully extract the body a heavy feeling settled in his lungs causing him to choke and cough. He pulled his charge to him and stood. The choking feeling was less intense up higher. The blond started coughing in his arms and Suoh hustled him out the nearest exit. Which would have been the door it the district center didn't have a computer virus.

Further Inside

"Trowa help me," Wufei called when he was sure the thing could actually lift the door shutter.

The ex-mercenary carefully set Quatre down and practically flipped his way over to the waiting Chinese pilot. Wufei paused wondering if showing off was all part of working in a circus. It probably was.

Working together the pair got the door cracked an inch or so when the nearing explosions finally burst in. Out of the dust came a large snake like thing with a drill bit head. It left a descent sized hole and headed strait for Quatre. The Sandrock pilot backed up from it at it reared up to his level. As it reached forward he got in a crouch ready to jump and said futily, "Stop!"

Wufei blinked as it did just that.

It froze completely in place "Down," Quatre said next and like a trained dog in obeyed.

"What is it Kim?" Towa said. He had covered half the distance to his friend to save him if need be.

"I'll tell you later," Quatre said looking around, "It's tunnel will drain the gas and it had all manner of transmitters. They might find us soon."

Outside

Akira paced in front of the hole in the back wall and soon heard a cough on the other side. "Takamura-sempai? It that you?" he called bending down level with the hole.

"Akira?" Kaichio's voice sounded surprised and horse, "Akira thank goodness. Come in here." After he slipped in he found the blond being held up by his guardian. But before he could ask Nokoru pushed a device the size of a palm pilot in his hand. "Track the digger Akira, Suoh wont leave me. It has found her I'm sure."

"Stay off the ground Akira," Suoh warned, "there is some kind of gas in there. We'll have medics out here."

"Right," Akira said jumping and climbing one of the nearest tanks. The building was relatively old and he had pulled off a few heists here. So unless the ducts had been changed dramatically it should be no problem getting to the group of friends."

Back to the pilots

The pilots as a whole were unsure about waiting to be rescued. The ingenuity that they have shown so far just to survive is probably enough to blow their cover to any neo-oz spy paying attention.

How would they find the smugglers without inside help of there own now?

Just then something rattled lightly in the vents overhead. Every pilot readied some form of protection just in case. A quiet hiss of metal against metal was the only sound the great made as it was pulled free and slid to the side.

"Is everyone okay?" Came a worried familiar voice followed by a head of black hair. Akira looked around.

There was a collective sigh and Heero said, "For now. Can you get us out of here?"

The small detective nodded, "Kaichio and Takamura-sempai have people standing by outside," he extended his arm down towards them, "Need a hand?"

It only took a few moments to get everyone up in to the small shaft. Duo was grateful that all he had to do was crawl he was still having a hard time breathing. It was quiet but also quick work to get outside where they were met buy emergency medical personnel. It took quite a bit of talking but the were all taken in pairs to the hospital.

At the hospital

Suoh wanted to pace, to scream, to do something that even seemed productive not have his lunges flushed. He took a deep breath of some oxygen and held his diaphragm still as a tube running through his nose sucked out all the invading gas that settled there.

The gas had been easily identified as acetylene, a heavier then air gas, non reactive and can smother. The vacuum had a simple analyzer and the instant in read 'clear' he would be out of there. So all he could do was think.

Someone wanted those students hurt, and if Kaichio hadn't delayed them the detectives would have been in there too. The first attack had been focused on the girls through action and words. It appeared that when none of the girls were left unguarded the perpetrator decided to up the stakes. The question was how desperate was this person to harm seemingly harmless people.

The secretary had yet to read those background reports he had ordered on the five, they might not be harmless.

He heard a beep different form the others and looked expectantly and the doctor. The elderly man nodded.

Once free of the device Suoh went over to Nokoru who was with in sight. He had quite a bit more in his system than the ninja had.

"Suoh?" he asked when the vacuum was in between cycles, "Check on them for me please?"

The blue haired youth nodded and left. Normally he would argue but the blond had effectively silenced that by the simple words 'for me'. Kami, Suoh hopped Nokoru would never find out how much Suoh would do for him.

He sighed, at the very lest Nokoru would not be doing paper work.

Farther down the wing

Akira was relived when he was tested negative for the gas. He didn't like the idea of a tube up his nose and by the pleads he heard from the hallway ether did the students. The treasurer had heard from the staff that Suoh and Nokoru were already admitted and that everyone affected would have to spend the night for observation for any adverse reactions.

Akira sat in a little plastic chair keeping a careful eye out. In a way the five were his charges for the Kaichio wanted them safe and as a member of the CLAMP Campus Detectives he would not let the other down.

The Treasurer saw Suoh turn up the hall towards him and nearly jumped when the door he was out side of opened for a nurse.

"How are they doing?" he asked.

"Well some of them aren't doing so good right now, but time will tell," she said smiling then she continued down the hall.

When Suoh came up beside him Akira told him what the nurse said and his shoulders slumped.

"But are you okay?" Suoh asked.

"Yea I managed to not breath any of the gas thanks to you," his silver-eyed gaze fell to the floor.

"But?" pressed the gold-eyed youth.

"But they could be really sick and its my fault," he finally confessed in a whisper.

"That is not even remotely possible," Suoh said with so much conviction Akira looked up to be almost overwhelmed with the anger there, "Did you rig the security shutter? Did you turn on the gas?" He looked at Akira who could only look back like a deer, "Well," Suoh clamed a bit, "did you Akira?"

"No," the ex-thief said his voice breaking.

"Then you didn't do anything wrong. You saved them," the ninja said crouching down and putting a reassuring hand on Akira's shoulder, "Now pull yourself together and think because we are having a talk with those students as soon as we can secure a place. We need to know what it going on here and for that they will need to do most of the talking."

TBC