Chapter 8

Hours past and during this time Wufei and Duo went through some of the data that the Dreamer had produced in the past. Duo was full of questions, constantly asking Wufei why and how does this work. The Chinese man was about to explode from frustration when Dorothy entered the room.

"Thank goodness you're back!" cried Wufei in relief. "How did the EEG go? Do the results show anything that we can use to solve our current problem?"

"Yes and no." answered Dorothy. "Yes as in I've found that there are missing lines in Quatre's EEG and also in Trowa's results. When I combine the two EEG's together they form a complete set of results for a normal human being." She took a deep breath before continuing. "No as in I have no idea how the two separated and how we can fix this problem."

A smile instantly lit up on Wufei's face. "I know what we have to do." He said. "Duo and I had a little discussion while you were gone and we've found that Duo could be Heero's emotions...in human form."

Dorothy caught on quickly. "And in order to fix this problem all we need to do is reverse the Dreamer's operations. That's brilliant!"

"Then what are we waiting for?" asked Wufei and he ushered the group into the testing room. Once there he seated Quatre in the glass cubicle where Trowa had come from and Trowa in the seat where Quatre had originally sat. Both had entered their cubicles without any fuss.

"I hope that this works." He said to Dorothy and keyed in the password.

The machine beeped and a slight humming told everyone in the room that the machine was working. Soon sleeping gas filled both chambers. Dorothy kept a close eye on the monitors.

"Everything is working perfectly."

"Good." Answered Wufei. "Continue to monitor those." He said as he kept an eye on the computer screens on his side of the room.

Duo pressed his face against the viewing glass. His eyes widened as Trowa began to fade away before his very eyes. "No way! Its really happening. You gotta have a look at this."

Wufei turned his head. Duo was right. Trowa was disappearing and Quatre was beginning to stir from his slumber.

"I'm going down to check on Quatre." said Wufei as he put on a gas mask. "Keep an eye out for his pulse."

"You go it. Now go and check on Quatre." Dorothy waved her hands in a shooing motion and Wufei ran out the door and down the stairs.

The Chinese man reached Quatre's cubicle in next to no time. He manually opened the door and reached in.

"Quatre, Quatre. Its Wufei, your boss at Virtual Reality Inc. If you can open your eyes or make a noise."

"Hnnn, oh my head." Groaned Quatre. "I feel like its been run over by a steam roller." He opened his eyes and saw Wufei through blurry eyes. "Wufei...what happened?"

"Good your conscious." Said Wufei and he waved over a medical team. "Take him to the treatment room. I want you to give him a full mental inspection." He moved out of the way to let the medical team.

Inside the testing facilities room Duo watched Quatre being taken away and he was scared. He knew that he was going have to go through the same thing that Trowa had gone through. He was going to disappear, to go back to Heero, to his dark homeland. That was something that he did not want to do.

"I don't want to go back." He said quietly.

Dorothy looked up and saw the expression on Duo's face. 'He's scared.' She thought. 'He's completely torn between staying and going back.'

The creak of a door opening interrupted the mind control specialist's thoughts.

"He's fine." Said Wufei with a smile on his face. "We'll continue with the reversal process once Quatre is back with us again. I want to make sure that we have the entire team here with us when we do this as Heero has been separated from his emotions for a very long time. Quatre will come in handy when we need to know how he is feeling."

Dorothy showed her understanding by nodding.

A few hours later Quatre entered the room looking like he did before. He bore no blank look that Heero still wore on his face and responded as he did prior to his little incident with the Dreamer.

"Quatre! You're back!" exclaimed Dorothy as she ran up to the blonde and gave him a hug.

"Yes, welcome back to the team." Said Wufei. "Welcome back."

Wufei and Dorothy spent the next hour explaining to Quatre their discovery about the Dreamer.

"So you're saying that we need to put Duo back into Heero...kinda like what you did to Trowa."

"Yes that's right." Confirmed Dorothy.

"But I'm sensing that Duo doesn't want to go back. He's scared...unsure but knows for certain that he needs to go back in order to save Heero."

Wufei gave the empathy a questioning look. "Are you certain about that? How could Duo feel so much? I mean a few days ago he seemed like he didn't know anything about our world."

"Wufei. Duo is smart. He's part of Heero and we know how high his IQ is." Said Dorothy. "I suppose that it should come as no surprise that Duo would be a fast learner."

Wufei nodded. "True...true...now should we get moving now we know how Duo is feeling?"

"Yes." Said Dorothy. "Lets get this show on the road."

Owari

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