A pain in her chest woke Paine up in the middle of the night. She gasped,
clutching her heart.
"What's wrong?" Duo asked from beside her.
"Someone's in pain..." she gasped.
"Wha-?"
"Dr. J's dead..." she said.
"What? How'd you know that?" he asked but Paine stayed silent, "I think it's time we all had a talk..." he said. Ten minutes later, much to the annoyance of Viper, they were all seated in the living room.
"What's this all about Maxwell?" Wufei growled.
"Paine just informed me that Dr. J is dead..."
"How did you know that?" Quatre asked Paine.
"We have to tell you something..." Paine said.
"Paine, don't; MM said to never -" Viper said.
"Well, he's dead, ain't he?" Paine snapped at the girl and then turned back to the others.
"We're not...normal..." she said. They listened quietly, "We were born with only mere traces of our powers inside of us but then we were taken off the streets and put into a testing lab to enhance those abilities to their full extent, well, as much as our body could take without losing our minds..."
"So, what you're saying is you have powers which are...?"
"This will help a little..." Paine said, pulling out something. She handed them for the boys to see.
L2 Medical Research Facility
Name: Paine
Age at time of arrival: 6
Age when finished: 12
Powers: has the ability to feel people's pain, inflict her own pain upon them, and healing
~~~~~~~~~~~ Name: Kitty
Age at time of arrival: 5
Age when finished: 11
Powers: shape shifting, animal linguist, healing
~~~~~~~~~~ Name: Viper
Age at time of arrival: 6
Age when finished: 14
Powers: telepath/telekinesis/empath, pyrokinetic, healing
~~~~~~~~~~ Name: Blade
Age at time of arrival: 5
Age when finished: 12
Powers: electrokinetic, can take others' powers or give her own away temporarily, healing
~~~~~~~~~ Name: Sakura
Age at time of arrival: 6
Age when finished: 12
Powers: hydrokinetic, ice-kinetic, healing
Duo looked up from the sheets and gulped.
"Hey, where did you get those sheets?" Kitty asked.
"Jacked them from MM"
"I don't believe this..." Wufei said.
"Believe it Chang" Blade said, "'Cause it's true..."
"But...I don't get it...why did Paine, Blade and Viper stay there longer?"
"The others got released first and since we were 'useful' to them, we got to stay behind for more advanced testing..."
"Like what?"
"I'd rather not talk about it..."
"Why wouldn't Dr. J want us to know?" Heero asked.
"I dunno..." Sakura said. Kitty began talking in her sleep next to her and she yawned too.
"Can we please go back to sleep?" Viper complained. She started to follow the other upstairs.
"We need to talk..." Heero said when she got to her room.
"NO, we don't" she yanked her hand away and slammed the door.
"Like I said; trouble in paradise" Kitty sang out when she passed.
~* * *~
~dream ~
Heero was staring at her and then kissed her. She gave into the kiss but then everything was black all around her.
"Viper, Pyro, you just fell right into our plans by giving in to your emotions" a voice said from all around, "Now we'll rule and your love will be left helpless until the day you kill him"
"NO! I WILL NEVER KILL HIM! I WON'T GO THROUGH WITH YOU PLAN!"
"Pyro...you have no choice!"
Then she saw Heero, staring at her, "Why did you betray me?" then she felt herself, as if controlled by something else, shoot him and he fell backwards, eyes lifeless lying in his own blood.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Heero! My love!(AN: I know it's a little overdramatic, but what do you expect? Would you rather have a boring plot where everybody lives happily ever after with no complications in between or this? Wait...never mind; you don't have a choice in this chapter...but you would if you actually GAVE REVIEWS...that's a hint, you know?) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"It's all your fault Pyro. You knew and yet you still brought him to his demise!"
~end dream~
"No!" Viper jolted up in her bed, hair sticking to her sweaty face.
'No, that won't happen; it will never happen no matter how hard UOC tries...'
~* * *~
The next day, they all woke up to find a mission.
"How can there be a mission? He's dead!"
"Apparently, he left his assistants orders to send us on these missions"
"Ok, then, where to?"
"L3...they have a mobile suit manufacturing plant there"
"Let's go!" they piled into their gundams and blasted off toward L3.
"MAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA; THE GOD OF DEATH WILL REIGN SUPREME!!" Duo yelled.
"Ok, who gave him sugar?" Heero asked.
"I would NEVER!" Paine said. Everyone looked unconvincingly at her and she attacked a mobile suit.
"DIE!!!!!!" Duo yelled, using his scythe. Viper depended mainly on the death chain for her attacks, since with one swing, it destroyed about six suits, Paine was using her scythe, the rest of the guys, minus Duo were using beam sabers, newly added to their gundams.
"MHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAH!" Kitty yelled using her whip.
"TROWA!" Sakura yelled out annoyed at the green-eyed pilot, "Don't give her sugar!"
"But she...turns those innocent eyes on me..." Trowa protested.
"INNOCENT?!" Paine laughed. Blade was concentrating on using her sword and destroyed about five mobile suits.
"Can we just get this done and argue when we get back?" Wufei asked, irritated. They shrugged and Blade used her gundam's lightning gun and destroyed the remaining suits on the field while Heero used his buster rifle to destroy the base.
Sakura was relieved to be finally out of her gundam and back in the base where she could head to her room and sleep.
Kitty and Duo were hyper on sugar and were annoying the hell out of Paine and Trowa. Everybody else headed to their rooms with something different on their minds.
'Need more IHD...damn, when is Kiyo gonna finish that permanent thing?'
'Need sleep...damn that Maxwell and his sugar...injustice; the noise they're making...'
'Oops...I forgot...electricity doesn't go well with water...'
'SLEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!'
'I have to talk to her tomorrow or she'll stay pissed off at me...' Heero thought to himself. He drifted off to sleep but when he woke up the next morning, Viper was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's Viper?" he asked.
"Out"
"Out where?"
"Um...withsomeguy!" Kitty said really quickly and then ran away.
"Damn...too late..." Heero pounded his fist into the wall and stormed off.
~* * *~
"So what did you want to talk about?" Cameron asked the raven-haired girl sitting on his couch.
"It's...about UOC..." she said, "I found this disk...and I'm not sure if I really should keep away..."
"Let's see it" he popped the disk into his laptop. "Oh...I know what you mean...that's quite a problem," Cameron said in his English accent, "Here, how 'bout I take you around town to take your mind off this?"
"Sure" Viper forced a grin.
~* * *~
Blade, Kitty, Paine, Duo, Wufei, Sakura, Quatre and Trowa were sitting around the table.
"Something's up with Viper"
"Yeah, and you know her; she won't tell us. She never tells us."
"Why's that?" Quatre asked.
"She thinks we have enough problems without her own for us to worry about"
"So how do we know what's wrong with her?"
"She went to Kiyo's a few days ago; maybe he knows?"
"She went to Kiyo's?" Kitty grinned, "That makes it easier; Kiyo sucks at lying!" She grabbed the phone and dialed the multi-billionaire's number.
"Hi Kiyo!" she said.
"Kitty, hi"
"We're trying to figure out something; wanna help?"
"Sure, what?"
"Why did Viper go to your office a few days ago?"
"Um...no reason..."
"C'mon Kiyo; you and I both know you suck at lying"
"Hey, I resent that!"
"Just tell me"
"Fine but only because you're her friend...she came to me to ask for IHD"
"Why would she do that?"
"Because Ryo tortured her..."
Everyone noticed that the usually hyper girl's face suddenly became grim, "Thanks for you help Kiyo," she said softly. When she hung up, she turned to the others, "Ryo tortured her and she went to him to ask for IHD"
"Ryo! It's always him, isn't it?!" Paine yelled, "First the mall, now this!"
"What's IHD?"
"Internal Healing Drug" Kitty said, "Kiyo created it; my half-sister died at the hands of Ryo's torturing and well, Kiyo invented this so no one else could die"
Heero was silently listening to this conversation just outside the door.
~* * *~
Viper ran into the base. She wasn't going to give in to her emotions, at all.
'Must not give in, must not give in' she kept repeating to herself.
"Ah shit" she said when she stepped into the kitchen and saw Heero, arms crossed, waiting for her.
"Have a nice date?" he asked coldly.
"Yep, wait – did you say date?" she stared at him and then started laughing. There was no way she would ever see Cameron as more than a friend.
"Why didn't you tell us about the IHD?" Heero asked. She was silent.
"Oh, I get it; you'll tell everyone else but not us, the people you should be telling, right? Did you go tell your boyfriend too?"
"What the hell are you so worked up about?"
"Oh, I see...now that you have a new boyfriend, you can't tell me, the one person who actually does love you what's happening with you...talk about toying with emotions..."
Viper looked up angrily, "You have no idea what you're talking about!" she yelled, clenching her fists. For the first time since he had met her, she had tears running down her face, "YOU HAVE NO IDEA; YOU JUST ASSUME EVERYTHING'S AGAINST YOU BUT YOU'RE WRONG! I'M DOING THIS FOR YOUR OWN FUCKING GOOD!" she yelled and ran off to another part of the base.
"What's wrong?" Duo asked from beside her.
"Someone's in pain..." she gasped.
"Wha-?"
"Dr. J's dead..." she said.
"What? How'd you know that?" he asked but Paine stayed silent, "I think it's time we all had a talk..." he said. Ten minutes later, much to the annoyance of Viper, they were all seated in the living room.
"What's this all about Maxwell?" Wufei growled.
"Paine just informed me that Dr. J is dead..."
"How did you know that?" Quatre asked Paine.
"We have to tell you something..." Paine said.
"Paine, don't; MM said to never -" Viper said.
"Well, he's dead, ain't he?" Paine snapped at the girl and then turned back to the others.
"We're not...normal..." she said. They listened quietly, "We were born with only mere traces of our powers inside of us but then we were taken off the streets and put into a testing lab to enhance those abilities to their full extent, well, as much as our body could take without losing our minds..."
"So, what you're saying is you have powers which are...?"
"This will help a little..." Paine said, pulling out something. She handed them for the boys to see.
L2 Medical Research Facility
Name: Paine
Age at time of arrival: 6
Age when finished: 12
Powers: has the ability to feel people's pain, inflict her own pain upon them, and healing
~~~~~~~~~~~ Name: Kitty
Age at time of arrival: 5
Age when finished: 11
Powers: shape shifting, animal linguist, healing
~~~~~~~~~~ Name: Viper
Age at time of arrival: 6
Age when finished: 14
Powers: telepath/telekinesis/empath, pyrokinetic, healing
~~~~~~~~~~ Name: Blade
Age at time of arrival: 5
Age when finished: 12
Powers: electrokinetic, can take others' powers or give her own away temporarily, healing
~~~~~~~~~ Name: Sakura
Age at time of arrival: 6
Age when finished: 12
Powers: hydrokinetic, ice-kinetic, healing
Duo looked up from the sheets and gulped.
"Hey, where did you get those sheets?" Kitty asked.
"Jacked them from MM"
"I don't believe this..." Wufei said.
"Believe it Chang" Blade said, "'Cause it's true..."
"But...I don't get it...why did Paine, Blade and Viper stay there longer?"
"The others got released first and since we were 'useful' to them, we got to stay behind for more advanced testing..."
"Like what?"
"I'd rather not talk about it..."
"Why wouldn't Dr. J want us to know?" Heero asked.
"I dunno..." Sakura said. Kitty began talking in her sleep next to her and she yawned too.
"Can we please go back to sleep?" Viper complained. She started to follow the other upstairs.
"We need to talk..." Heero said when she got to her room.
"NO, we don't" she yanked her hand away and slammed the door.
"Like I said; trouble in paradise" Kitty sang out when she passed.
~* * *~
~dream ~
Heero was staring at her and then kissed her. She gave into the kiss but then everything was black all around her.
"Viper, Pyro, you just fell right into our plans by giving in to your emotions" a voice said from all around, "Now we'll rule and your love will be left helpless until the day you kill him"
"NO! I WILL NEVER KILL HIM! I WON'T GO THROUGH WITH YOU PLAN!"
"Pyro...you have no choice!"
Then she saw Heero, staring at her, "Why did you betray me?" then she felt herself, as if controlled by something else, shoot him and he fell backwards, eyes lifeless lying in his own blood.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Heero! My love!(AN: I know it's a little overdramatic, but what do you expect? Would you rather have a boring plot where everybody lives happily ever after with no complications in between or this? Wait...never mind; you don't have a choice in this chapter...but you would if you actually GAVE REVIEWS...that's a hint, you know?) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"It's all your fault Pyro. You knew and yet you still brought him to his demise!"
~end dream~
"No!" Viper jolted up in her bed, hair sticking to her sweaty face.
'No, that won't happen; it will never happen no matter how hard UOC tries...'
~* * *~
The next day, they all woke up to find a mission.
"How can there be a mission? He's dead!"
"Apparently, he left his assistants orders to send us on these missions"
"Ok, then, where to?"
"L3...they have a mobile suit manufacturing plant there"
"Let's go!" they piled into their gundams and blasted off toward L3.
"MAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA; THE GOD OF DEATH WILL REIGN SUPREME!!" Duo yelled.
"Ok, who gave him sugar?" Heero asked.
"I would NEVER!" Paine said. Everyone looked unconvincingly at her and she attacked a mobile suit.
"DIE!!!!!!" Duo yelled, using his scythe. Viper depended mainly on the death chain for her attacks, since with one swing, it destroyed about six suits, Paine was using her scythe, the rest of the guys, minus Duo were using beam sabers, newly added to their gundams.
"MHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAH!" Kitty yelled using her whip.
"TROWA!" Sakura yelled out annoyed at the green-eyed pilot, "Don't give her sugar!"
"But she...turns those innocent eyes on me..." Trowa protested.
"INNOCENT?!" Paine laughed. Blade was concentrating on using her sword and destroyed about five mobile suits.
"Can we just get this done and argue when we get back?" Wufei asked, irritated. They shrugged and Blade used her gundam's lightning gun and destroyed the remaining suits on the field while Heero used his buster rifle to destroy the base.
Sakura was relieved to be finally out of her gundam and back in the base where she could head to her room and sleep.
Kitty and Duo were hyper on sugar and were annoying the hell out of Paine and Trowa. Everybody else headed to their rooms with something different on their minds.
'Need more IHD...damn, when is Kiyo gonna finish that permanent thing?'
'Need sleep...damn that Maxwell and his sugar...injustice; the noise they're making...'
'Oops...I forgot...electricity doesn't go well with water...'
'SLEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!'
'I have to talk to her tomorrow or she'll stay pissed off at me...' Heero thought to himself. He drifted off to sleep but when he woke up the next morning, Viper was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's Viper?" he asked.
"Out"
"Out where?"
"Um...withsomeguy!" Kitty said really quickly and then ran away.
"Damn...too late..." Heero pounded his fist into the wall and stormed off.
~* * *~
"So what did you want to talk about?" Cameron asked the raven-haired girl sitting on his couch.
"It's...about UOC..." she said, "I found this disk...and I'm not sure if I really should keep away..."
"Let's see it" he popped the disk into his laptop. "Oh...I know what you mean...that's quite a problem," Cameron said in his English accent, "Here, how 'bout I take you around town to take your mind off this?"
"Sure" Viper forced a grin.
~* * *~
Blade, Kitty, Paine, Duo, Wufei, Sakura, Quatre and Trowa were sitting around the table.
"Something's up with Viper"
"Yeah, and you know her; she won't tell us. She never tells us."
"Why's that?" Quatre asked.
"She thinks we have enough problems without her own for us to worry about"
"So how do we know what's wrong with her?"
"She went to Kiyo's a few days ago; maybe he knows?"
"She went to Kiyo's?" Kitty grinned, "That makes it easier; Kiyo sucks at lying!" She grabbed the phone and dialed the multi-billionaire's number.
"Hi Kiyo!" she said.
"Kitty, hi"
"We're trying to figure out something; wanna help?"
"Sure, what?"
"Why did Viper go to your office a few days ago?"
"Um...no reason..."
"C'mon Kiyo; you and I both know you suck at lying"
"Hey, I resent that!"
"Just tell me"
"Fine but only because you're her friend...she came to me to ask for IHD"
"Why would she do that?"
"Because Ryo tortured her..."
Everyone noticed that the usually hyper girl's face suddenly became grim, "Thanks for you help Kiyo," she said softly. When she hung up, she turned to the others, "Ryo tortured her and she went to him to ask for IHD"
"Ryo! It's always him, isn't it?!" Paine yelled, "First the mall, now this!"
"What's IHD?"
"Internal Healing Drug" Kitty said, "Kiyo created it; my half-sister died at the hands of Ryo's torturing and well, Kiyo invented this so no one else could die"
Heero was silently listening to this conversation just outside the door.
~* * *~
Viper ran into the base. She wasn't going to give in to her emotions, at all.
'Must not give in, must not give in' she kept repeating to herself.
"Ah shit" she said when she stepped into the kitchen and saw Heero, arms crossed, waiting for her.
"Have a nice date?" he asked coldly.
"Yep, wait – did you say date?" she stared at him and then started laughing. There was no way she would ever see Cameron as more than a friend.
"Why didn't you tell us about the IHD?" Heero asked. She was silent.
"Oh, I get it; you'll tell everyone else but not us, the people you should be telling, right? Did you go tell your boyfriend too?"
"What the hell are you so worked up about?"
"Oh, I see...now that you have a new boyfriend, you can't tell me, the one person who actually does love you what's happening with you...talk about toying with emotions..."
Viper looked up angrily, "You have no idea what you're talking about!" she yelled, clenching her fists. For the first time since he had met her, she had tears running down her face, "YOU HAVE NO IDEA; YOU JUST ASSUME EVERYTHING'S AGAINST YOU BUT YOU'RE WRONG! I'M DOING THIS FOR YOUR OWN FUCKING GOOD!" she yelled and ran off to another part of the base.