Chapter 7
Quatre woke up to the sound of Dorothy calling for the paramedics.
"Where am I?" he groaned. He held his head with both hands in an attempt to stop the thumping pain. He currently felt like he had one too many drinks and his head was spinning like crazy. Then he remembered what he had been doing prior to his passing out. He turned his head over to one side and saw a boy with brown hair. Was that the boy of his dreams?
Dorothy's cry interrupted the Arab's thoughts. "Quatre! Quatre! How are you feeling? Are you alright?" she asked and wrapped a blanket around him.
"He...there...he's real." Quatre pointed to the person lying in the glass cubicle not too far away from him. "Oh Allah! I can't believe that this happened."
The long haired blonde could feel rage boil in her blood. She was so angry that she could almost slap Quatre but couldn't bring herself to him one of her best friends.
"Oh Quatre! How could you be so stupid! Do you realize that you were actually putting your life in danger?"
Quatre shook his head. "I...I just wanted to test out. No I wanted to try the Dreamer for myself. I wanted to experience what Heero went through."
This time Dorothy could hold back no longer and slapped Quatre hard. Unshed tears burned her eyes.
"Do you realize what has happened Heero?"
"Heero? What has happened to Heero? I thought that Zechs was looking after him."
Dorothy wiped away a tear. "I just spoke to Dr Po. She's received an urgent call from Wufei. She was supposed to pass the message to you but she couldn't find you in the control room." Dorothy took a deep breath. "Heero has...lost all emotion."
"Lost all emotion!? But how? What went wrong in our test?"
Dorothy shook her head. "I don't know. I really don't know." She turned and looked at the person in the other cubicle, who was starting to stir from his slumber.
Dorothy motioned for Duo to help Quatre while she went over to the other glass booth. She cautiously opened the door and put a warm safety blanket over the naked boy who had just woken up.
"Hello there." She said gently. Remembering Duo's response to meeting other people for the first time she decided to reassure him. "Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you. Nobody here is going to hurt you in any way."
The boy ran a hand through his hair and looked at Dorothy through his bangs. The mind control specialist found that this boy had bright green eyes and one of them was covered by his bangs. She made a mental note that people who were created or dreamed through the Dreamer had unusual coloured eyes.
Seeing that the boy was not going to panic like Duo had Dorothy decided that the best thing to do was to keep talking to the young man.
"My name is Dorothy. What's yours?"
The young man looked up at the specialist and blinked. "My name is Trowa." He said calmly in a smooth voice.
"Have I been set free?"
There were those words again. Duo had said them when he had entered the real world. Did that mean the human brain was a prison for the people in their dreams? There were so many questions to ask.
Suddenly Wufei entered the room followed by Heero. Dorothy noted that Heero was walking awkwardly. She then remembered Dr Sally Po's words. Heero had apparently lost all sense of emotion. Deciding to test this theory she smiled at the chocolate haired boy.
"Hey Heero. Sorry for calling you in so late."
"Hn."
"He doesn't respond or should I say, he does respond sometimes but shows no sense of emotion." Said Wufei. He surveyed the current surroundings and looked at Dorothy with a puzzled expression.
"What happened here?"
Dorothy looked to where Duo was tending the empath. "Quatre decided to give the Dreamer a go while no body was here to supervise. Trowa here is the product of his experiment." She paused and swallowed. "I just hope that whatever happened to Heero won't happen to Quatre."
The Chinese man nodded in agreement.
"Wufei, we need to analyze the data collected from Duo's scans. We need to find out what happened exactly to Heero and why he is acting like he is."
Wufei nodded again. "Yes, you're right. Take Heero and give him an EEG. I want to compare his results to Duo's. After that, if you have time I want you to give Quatre and Trowa one. I'm going to go over the information that we already have with Duo and also monitor his behavior at the same time."
Dorothy immediately sprung into action, taking with her the people that she needed with her into the EEG room and leaving Duo and Wufei behind.
Wufei looked at Duo. "What a mess!"
"No it's not messy in here. In fact it's rather neat."
The Chinese man cocked an eyebrow in the braided boy's direction. "Did you just crack a joke? Do you know what the situation currently is? Something has happened and you are directly involved in it."
"I know that. I'm not stupid you know."
Wufei let out an exasperated sigh. "Duo, this is no joking matter. I have to find out what happened to Heero."
"I can answer that for you." Duo said happily. "In fact you already know the answer yourself. Heero has lost his emotions."
"Duo. A person can't simply lose their emotions all of a sudden."
"They can't?" asked Duo, puzzled at the statement.
"No, unless they've gone through some trauma or major incident."
"Major incident." Repeated Duo. "Major incident, major incident, major incident...I got it!"
Wufei looked at Duo as if he were crazy. "How would you know what happened? You don't even know how the machine functions."
"No no no! You have to hear me out. I think I know how it works. Quatre just went into the machine and that person came out...so that means when Heero went into the machine I came out right?"
Wufei nodded. He noted that Duo spoke with an air of intelligence.
"And you also said that Heero had lost his emotions. That must mean that I am Heero's emotions...gosh that sounds weird. But I think that's the only logical explanation."
"But the objective of Operation Dreamer was to create a person from the user's dreams." Countered Wufei. "In fact it was specifically designed and programmed for that purpose. There is no code for emotions in the program whatsoever unless..."
"Somebody added the code for that in?" offered Duo.
Wufei shook his head. "No, Heero would never do anything like that unless there he had a good reason to."
"Maybe he did."
The Chinese man thought back to the past few days events. Did Heero actually add in a emotions function without the rest of the team knowing?
"Stupid man!" he muttered. "He should have at least told one person in the team to avoid having this accident, one that involves his own life too."
Duo turned his head to face the door where Dorothy had led the others out of the room. "Well, the only thing we can do now is wait and hope for the best."
Quatre woke up to the sound of Dorothy calling for the paramedics.
"Where am I?" he groaned. He held his head with both hands in an attempt to stop the thumping pain. He currently felt like he had one too many drinks and his head was spinning like crazy. Then he remembered what he had been doing prior to his passing out. He turned his head over to one side and saw a boy with brown hair. Was that the boy of his dreams?
Dorothy's cry interrupted the Arab's thoughts. "Quatre! Quatre! How are you feeling? Are you alright?" she asked and wrapped a blanket around him.
"He...there...he's real." Quatre pointed to the person lying in the glass cubicle not too far away from him. "Oh Allah! I can't believe that this happened."
The long haired blonde could feel rage boil in her blood. She was so angry that she could almost slap Quatre but couldn't bring herself to him one of her best friends.
"Oh Quatre! How could you be so stupid! Do you realize that you were actually putting your life in danger?"
Quatre shook his head. "I...I just wanted to test out. No I wanted to try the Dreamer for myself. I wanted to experience what Heero went through."
This time Dorothy could hold back no longer and slapped Quatre hard. Unshed tears burned her eyes.
"Do you realize what has happened Heero?"
"Heero? What has happened to Heero? I thought that Zechs was looking after him."
Dorothy wiped away a tear. "I just spoke to Dr Po. She's received an urgent call from Wufei. She was supposed to pass the message to you but she couldn't find you in the control room." Dorothy took a deep breath. "Heero has...lost all emotion."
"Lost all emotion!? But how? What went wrong in our test?"
Dorothy shook her head. "I don't know. I really don't know." She turned and looked at the person in the other cubicle, who was starting to stir from his slumber.
Dorothy motioned for Duo to help Quatre while she went over to the other glass booth. She cautiously opened the door and put a warm safety blanket over the naked boy who had just woken up.
"Hello there." She said gently. Remembering Duo's response to meeting other people for the first time she decided to reassure him. "Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you. Nobody here is going to hurt you in any way."
The boy ran a hand through his hair and looked at Dorothy through his bangs. The mind control specialist found that this boy had bright green eyes and one of them was covered by his bangs. She made a mental note that people who were created or dreamed through the Dreamer had unusual coloured eyes.
Seeing that the boy was not going to panic like Duo had Dorothy decided that the best thing to do was to keep talking to the young man.
"My name is Dorothy. What's yours?"
The young man looked up at the specialist and blinked. "My name is Trowa." He said calmly in a smooth voice.
"Have I been set free?"
There were those words again. Duo had said them when he had entered the real world. Did that mean the human brain was a prison for the people in their dreams? There were so many questions to ask.
Suddenly Wufei entered the room followed by Heero. Dorothy noted that Heero was walking awkwardly. She then remembered Dr Sally Po's words. Heero had apparently lost all sense of emotion. Deciding to test this theory she smiled at the chocolate haired boy.
"Hey Heero. Sorry for calling you in so late."
"Hn."
"He doesn't respond or should I say, he does respond sometimes but shows no sense of emotion." Said Wufei. He surveyed the current surroundings and looked at Dorothy with a puzzled expression.
"What happened here?"
Dorothy looked to where Duo was tending the empath. "Quatre decided to give the Dreamer a go while no body was here to supervise. Trowa here is the product of his experiment." She paused and swallowed. "I just hope that whatever happened to Heero won't happen to Quatre."
The Chinese man nodded in agreement.
"Wufei, we need to analyze the data collected from Duo's scans. We need to find out what happened exactly to Heero and why he is acting like he is."
Wufei nodded again. "Yes, you're right. Take Heero and give him an EEG. I want to compare his results to Duo's. After that, if you have time I want you to give Quatre and Trowa one. I'm going to go over the information that we already have with Duo and also monitor his behavior at the same time."
Dorothy immediately sprung into action, taking with her the people that she needed with her into the EEG room and leaving Duo and Wufei behind.
Wufei looked at Duo. "What a mess!"
"No it's not messy in here. In fact it's rather neat."
The Chinese man cocked an eyebrow in the braided boy's direction. "Did you just crack a joke? Do you know what the situation currently is? Something has happened and you are directly involved in it."
"I know that. I'm not stupid you know."
Wufei let out an exasperated sigh. "Duo, this is no joking matter. I have to find out what happened to Heero."
"I can answer that for you." Duo said happily. "In fact you already know the answer yourself. Heero has lost his emotions."
"Duo. A person can't simply lose their emotions all of a sudden."
"They can't?" asked Duo, puzzled at the statement.
"No, unless they've gone through some trauma or major incident."
"Major incident." Repeated Duo. "Major incident, major incident, major incident...I got it!"
Wufei looked at Duo as if he were crazy. "How would you know what happened? You don't even know how the machine functions."
"No no no! You have to hear me out. I think I know how it works. Quatre just went into the machine and that person came out...so that means when Heero went into the machine I came out right?"
Wufei nodded. He noted that Duo spoke with an air of intelligence.
"And you also said that Heero had lost his emotions. That must mean that I am Heero's emotions...gosh that sounds weird. But I think that's the only logical explanation."
"But the objective of Operation Dreamer was to create a person from the user's dreams." Countered Wufei. "In fact it was specifically designed and programmed for that purpose. There is no code for emotions in the program whatsoever unless..."
"Somebody added the code for that in?" offered Duo.
Wufei shook his head. "No, Heero would never do anything like that unless there he had a good reason to."
"Maybe he did."
The Chinese man thought back to the past few days events. Did Heero actually add in a emotions function without the rest of the team knowing?
"Stupid man!" he muttered. "He should have at least told one person in the team to avoid having this accident, one that involves his own life too."
Duo turned his head to face the door where Dorothy had led the others out of the room. "Well, the only thing we can do now is wait and hope for the best."
