Chapter 4: Search and Restrain

"Awwwwwwwwwwww... look at those cut babies.", Zechs and Trieze were searching through the maternity ward. At the moment, they had just seem the room full of all the little bundles of joy. "Trieze... I want one?" Zechs looked up at Trieze with puppy dog eyes.

"I don't really think that is possible my love. Not by ourselves at least. One of us would have to be a woman."

"Oh. But I still want one. Couldn't we at least try? I mean...just look at them."

Trieze sighed. This won't really work he thought but hey, at least he would get to have it with Zechs again. It seemed like lately they were always so busy. It was either missions this or training that. "Okay Zechs, lets us find an empty room and we can see what we can do." And with that, Trieze and a grinning Zech went out in search of an empty room.

Heero and Trowa seemed to be having the opposite reaction.

"Trowa, Get These Damn Kids OFF ME!!!" A nurse, seeing them slowly looking through the hallways, seemed to have mistaken them for lost hospital volunteers. So now here they were in the children's play area, stuck reading to a bunch of little five and six year olds. And it was seeming that these little terrors didn't have much in the attention span category.

" Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin"

"Ah Trowa what did you just say to me?!?"

"I wasn't talking to you, I was reading The Three Little Pigs like we're suppose to be doing." And with that, Trowa turned back to his story.

"Trowa I really hate to break it to you but.... 1) no one is listening to you and 2) we're suppose to be looking for Duo. If we don't find him, Quatre will kill us all."

"Quatre would never do that to us. He is so kind hearted"

"He tried to before, remember! You almost got fucking blown out of damn space!" Heero was frustrated.

With all this interesting conversation going on, the little kids had crowded around the two older teens. One of the little girls looked up at Heero and called out, "You said a bad word. You said two bad words. I'm telling my mommy!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Grr... what the hell is wrong with these stupid brats?!?!? They are trying my patients. Trowa, if we don't get out of here soon I will be killing something and it for sure as hell won't be me this time." Trowa turned away from his story and got a glance at Heero's face. It was the shade of a light plum and getting darker by the minute as more children came up to him to either ask him something or tell him something.

"Umm...lets go then before these little tykes have to watch a massacre." Trowa started to rise when he heard a little boy hit Heero on the back of the head and yell "Tag, Your It!"

Heero turned his head slightly to face Trowa. Quietly and calmly the boy spoke, "Too Late." And with that, he turned back, jumped out of the little chair he was in and ran screaming around the room, chasing kids here and there with a look on his face that a insane mental patient would be proud of. Heero turned for a second to grab the chair he had been resting his tushy for only moments ago. After snatching up the item, he pulled a quick 180 while raising the chair into the air with both hands, ready to pummel the kid into the hard tiled hospital flooring. But when our Heero looked down, the child was not to be found. He had run off somewhere and this made spandex boy even angrier. Heero searched, plummeting in and around the not so cushy chairs and couch surrounding the TV.

"Boo!", as Heero was about to peak his head under the next chair. The boy popped out, startling Hee-chan. This sent Heero failing wildly back and caused him to hit his head rather loudly on the table behind him. Though the pain swiftly spreading throughout his noggin, Heero heard Trowa say, " I think it is time for us to continue our search for Duo.". To this he agreed, and even has they heard the sighs and complaints of the various children in the room, Heero could here the small sound of chuckling coming from the direction of one particular brat as Trowa helped him out of the room.

As soon as the two left, Duo burst out into laughter. It had been so hard to contain himself as he had watched to events unfold before him. The nurse dragging them in, the story, the "bad words", and then the little boy he had paid to annoy Hee-chan... it was all so perfect! Now if only they knew that he had been right above them the whole time, watching from the little air duct by the roof....

It seemed that these were not the only unsuccessful groups. Down in the ER section of the hospital, the girls were having a different problem.

"Oh my god!!! Look at that blood!!! It is sooo disgusting!" Hilde seemed to be turning a slight greenish color. It seems that bloody beat up corpses from horrible car accidents and fires did not agree with her delicate nausea tolerance. Given that the likelihood of how many of these people would actually live to tell the story of their accident to teens in school assembly, this was not a pretty sight.

It did not take Sally long to come up with a decision, "How come I don't think that Duo would be here? If he can't even stand one little needle, do you really think that he would come here with all this blood and crap?"

"Maybe that's what he wants us to think", Dorothy chimed in, "Maybe Duo is hiding here cause he knows that we know that he would never come here. Have you ever thought of that?"

"Dorothy, think about Duo for a moment. He isn't exactly smart enough to think up a plan like that. It would involve too much work on his part"

"She's right you know" Lady Une added.

"Yeah well... Mmyah" It seems that Dorothy could not easily accept that fact that she would ever be wrong."

Catherine was just looking around, sort of in a daze. She jumped to the side when she heard a brief scream directed at her. Two young paramedics where pushing a wheeled stretcher down the corridor and they were about to bump into her. The bloody image of a small girl, maybe around the age of 5, passed her by. Cathy held here tears as she spoke to the others, "Let's just go. He isn't here and we are just in the way of everyone." Noin agreed with this and everyone turned to leave.

"Old people are weird." Mariemaia stated. "All they ever do is pinch you on the cheek and mumble on about how cute you are."

"They are strange." Wufei agreed with a small nod, not really paying attention to her. He wanted to find Duo and get the hell away from here. The two stepped into a large room filled with chairs. One section also included tables facing towards one large table with a large container filled with little white balls. Bingo sheets were already placed out before the chairs, bingo chips scattered around.

As Wufei scanned the room, ignoring Marie, he glanced at an old ( very old) man that was beckoning to him. Coming over, the man motioned for him to sit. "So glad that the young ones are taking an interest in us experienced folk."

Wufei tried to explain "Well actually we were just looking for a -" He was interrupted. "I should have known that you would try to leave me all alone, to die with only my thoughts to keep me company. After all I did in the war against OZ. Did you know that I almost died in that? Was against a big mobile suit called a Gundam. This huge dragon like thing came right at me but luckily he missed a fatal area and instead ended up skinning me on the side. Been in here ever since. They made me retire and stay in this little crap-hole. Haven't even heard about much of the going on's in the outside world. But I can tell you this. Those Gundams are evil devises that where created only to be used by the devil himself. May God bless the souls of all those that the Gundams came up against. Hope that they got what they deserved. What's the matter boy?" Wufie's face had turned purple as he heard this. "Injustice!!!" He cried, "Injustice. Those gundam pilots got what they deserved all right. They were rewarded and honoured. Still are! And it's your fault that you are in such misery! If all you do is lock yourself up in here without even at least listening to the radio. After everyone who suffered from the war paid greatly, you sit here and complain about it, even when you were on the wrong side. Anyone against the Gundams was working for the evil...."

At this point, the heart monitor attached to the man went into the consecutive beep sound. But Wufei just kept on shouting at the man. Mariemaia has to drag him away from the room, yelling at him to shut up before someone kicked them out.

Duo laughed to himself. Everything was going so perfectly. His fellow pilots were in misery and the exit was now in sight. T hats what they get for tricking me to come here.

Duo baby-crawled as fast as he could to the exit but then. .....

"Hey Relena, Do you think that the others are going to find Duo. I hope he wasn't able to get away.". Relena laughed. "Of course he is still in here. I can feel it in my bones."

Yeah I guess. Wouldn't it be funny if he was right under our noses this whole tim...AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH" Duo fell from the sky to land right on Quatre's lap. Duo looked from Quatre to the hole in the ceiling and back to Quatre. His gaze shifted to Relena beside hi, who was reaching for the long, thick rope that lay beside her.

"OH SHIT!"