Chapter 3 - Mission: Escape. Mission: Accepted

Duo looked up to glare at Mariemaia. It was embarrassing to have a little pip squeak like her watch over him. Then again, he shouldn't even be here. He should be out working on Deathscythe right now. Oh well. It was a miracle that Duo was even sitting in the chair quietly. It had taken Quatre a whole 22 minutes just to get him to calm down. But now Duo was slightly less spooked.

Duo glanced around to see a young girl help herself to a chocolate chip cookie and a fruit punch juice box. She grabbed a whole handful of the cookies and came and sat in the chair beside Duo. Duo looked over at the child and whispered, "I didn't know that we got cookies while waiting"

"You don't.", was her reply "You have to get your needle first"

"Oh" Duo had shuttered at the mention of the word needle. Seeing this, the girl smiled and evil grin to herself, "This could be fun" she thought.

"Oh by the way, my name is Melissa." The girl was being extra friendly to Duo now. Though the idiot wasn't even suspicious at her change of attitude.

"Duo"

"That's great. now we can become buddies. Guess your waiting for your turn eh?" Duo nodded silently. He was glad to have someone to talk to. Mariemaia had left cause Trieze had called her over to ask her something.

"What was it like?", Duo questioned this girl. Quatre had said that it wouldn't hurt but... Quatre would tell him anything to get him to be quiet and to cooperate.

"You don't know?!? I don't want to be the one to have to tell you this but...", she then perked up and strongly said, "It is the most painful thing in the world. They get this huge honking needle out of a cupboard and then the doctors calls the nurse in to strap you too the table. They cover your mouth with duct tape so the others waiting in here can't hear you. Then they stab the needle right through your arm., You can hear it rip through the skin and bone and everything. The pain is so unbearable that you end up grinding your teeth half way through! Since the needle goes in so deep, he has to put a foot against you and pull it out with both hands. Slowly, ever so slowly, it comes out. And when it is finally out, all this blood comes rushing out of you onto the floor. They have a tarp on the ground and everything, just so it is easy to clean up and the next person won't see it. After all that, they have to look at the hole to see if they put the needle into the right place. Half the time they don't so they have to redo it." Throughout this whole thing, Melissa was acting out the horrors that she portrayed to Duo. Then she looked up at him. It was pathetic really. I mean here he was staring at her with his eyes wide and his mouth hanging wide open. He was cowering so far back in his chair that Melissa thought that the chair was going to fall over backwards. This made Melissa laugh.

"Not many people have made it out of there alive you know. Just look at how empty this room is" Melissa accidentally forgot to add that almost everyone had gotten their needles and had left while she was filling Duo's head with stories. "Well I got to go. Have fun!" And with that she strutted out the door.

"That's it!" Duo thought to himself "I can't go through with this. I have way to much to do in life still. I now have a mission. Escape. Mission: Accepted." He looked around the room to plan his escape route. Slowly his gaze made it across the room until...

"Ah ha!" Duo slid off the chair and started belling crawling to the air duct. (insert Mission Impossible music here) "Inch by inch he made his way along the blue tile flooring. He went under all the chairs and came around to the nurses desk. Here was the hardest part. If he could make it past here and then to the vent, he would be home free. Carefully, oh so carefully Duo sneaked past the desk and up the vent that lay on the wall just above floor level. Slowly the vent door was lifted and then Duo took one last look around his prison. There right by his original place in the chair, was an identical vent. All that work and .... Oh well. In he slipped.

Quatre turned around to see Marie talking to Trieze. "Ah Marie, aren't you suppose to be watching Duo?"

"Oh he'll be fine for a few minutes. I mean look around. Where could he possible go to?"

And with that they both looked around the room. There really was nowhere to go, but then as heads turned towards Duo's chair...

"HE'S GONE!!!"

Duo laughed to himself as he crawled around through the vents. Good thing this building still had those big old huge ones that even he could get through. "I will survive, you know I will survive" I quietly sung. "Ha ha, point given to Du-chan. I so win this one. Now... which way is out?" Our little sneak had gotten himself lost. with all the twists and turns and everything looking the same, he had forgotten all the turns that he had taken.

"Help" Duo squeaked quietly. The he continued on his search for freedom.

"Okay everyone. Fan out", Relena commanded, "He couldn't have gotten far. Now, the nurse said that she didn't see anyone leave the building so he must still be in here somewhere. Heero and Trowa, you look down the Paediatrics' Wing. Wu-fie and Mariemaia down the Senior's Hall. Trieze and Zechs you are in charge of the maternity section. Girls, you take the ER. Me and Quatre will stay here to see if he shows up. Don't miss a thing. This means all exits AND bathrooms. Now, fan out!"