Chapter 2:
It had been a busy week since Heero had disappeared and they were having bad luck with the investigation. The footprints mysteriously stopped less than a mile ahead of where he fell.
The door to Lady Une's office knocked loudly and Marie-maia spun around in Une's work chair to see who it was. Lady Une lifted her head and told the person to come in. Noin opened the door and smiled at the two people in the room sadly.
"Our sources have heard a rumor that Dekim was is still alive." Noin said, sitting down stiffly in a chair. "We have confirmed that he has been seen, but only once or twice."
"How is this possible? Dekim was shot in the heart. He died instantly. They even buried his body." Une said heatedly.
"Dekim had many doubles for this very reason. Apparently the one that was shot was the last one." Noin said, trying hard not to make Une any more stressed. Heero's disappearance had taken its toll on all of them and Relena looked like a wreck. She hadn't even done any public speeches or anything since then, though she tried to get herself together.
"We have sent the Gundam pilot's Duo Maxwell and Chang Wufei along Zech's to look into it." Noin said assuring her everything was going to go smoothly.
"All of them?" Une asked, noting Marie-maia was feeling down because she thought it was all her fault.
"Yes, apparently he has a very strong bodyguard," Noin stated, looking at a clipboard which she handed to Lady Une. "He's come prepared this time."
"I understand." Lady Une said. "Stay with Sally. If this bodyguard is as strong as you think it is, then I want you to be prepared for injuries." Noin nodded in understanding.
"We also hooked up a communicator that relays all of what they hear and a video link is also secured." Noin said. "We can tell if this is really Dekim or not." Une nodded to this and Noin left the room after she connected the video link to her laptop.
In Europe, Romefeller country...
The sounds of explosives rattled the base as it shook to its very support beams, though they knew they would topple so easily.
Duo led the others down the deserted and debris filled hallway. Surprisingly, there were rarely any guards, though when they did they came in clusters. Quite the odd strategy instead of spreading them out.
Duo pointed to a room and they nodded in affirmation. Zechs walked up to the door and unlocked the door code as it opened, all the Preventer's holding their automatic firing guns at whatever the room held.
However, nothing could prepare them for what was behind the door...
Une stared at the computer link in sock as the image began to appear of what they were seeing. She was so shocked that she almost fell out of her chair, surprised by what was behind the door. And with that monster...She was definitely missing something...
"Miss Une, what is it?" Marie-maia questioned her surrogate mother whom always told her stories of the war. To show her how courageous her father was and the Gundam pilots.
Especially Heero Yuy. Marrie-maia loved hearing the story of how Relena and him had met, thinking was pure destiny. Lady Une herself left out the full details like how Heero did something to his suit but it ended up miss firing.
After finding out about the story, she had decided to tell Marie-maia as a bedtime love story for her. 'Heero would kill her if he knew about that. Heero would...Heero....' Lady Une couldn't draw her mind away from him. Somehow she felt obliged to find him and it was her fault she couldn't.
She looked at the screen in awe, whispering the name of the surprise inside...
"H-Heero?!" Duo shouted, looking at the figure standing next to Dekim with blank and vacant eyes. "What are you doing?!" He shouted, looking at the pilot who seemed not to recognize him and ignore him.
"What is going on?" Wufei growled, looking at Dekim who was sitting in a plush chair with Heero by his side.
"Oh, I forgot to mention my faithful bodyguard, Zero." Dekim smiled evilly, introducing Heero to them.
"What is going on?" Zechs said angrily to the old man, repeating Wufei's question.
"Oh, you see. Me and Heero go back a long way." He grinned evilly at them. "I was the one who was in charge of the whole training to create the perfect soldier."
"What?!" Duo shouted, Dekim and Heero had known one another. He had SOMEHOW failed to bring that up. That...or he didn't even remember! He said J had trained him and others, so that would mean Dekim was in charge of the whole thing and wanted him for his own reasons...Were they going to really use Operation M with him if the others wouldn't agree. Knowing Heero, he would follow any command...But the question is...why? Too bad that question went too far back before any of them could find any information on the pilot. He had hidden his past well. No traces like a perfect soldier was sure to make sure of.
"Oh, yes, you see after a certain mission I realized how flawed he was and so we got rid of his emotions. They were useless and got in the way." He grinned. "Though the faithful Doctor J thought this was outrageous, but he agreed to it anyway after some...persuasion involving the boy." He smiled at them evil glinting in his eyes. "A lot of his trainers had fun with him, trying to see who could make him scream first. Making bets to see who could use the worst torture device." He smirked.
"You monster!" Wufei shouted angrily, clenching his fists.
Une gasped at this when she was hearing and seeing all of this back in her office. 'No wonder he's like how he is!' She thought angrily, clenching her teeth with anger seething from her body. Marie-maia looked at her, quite scared and quite awed at all of this. She had never seen Une so angry.
Marie-maia tried once more to find out what was going on. She prayed it wasn't something about the war she almost started, terribly hating her mistake with regret and anger. She had been a puppet and she would have brought around a war just to rule over people. People who had done nothing to deserve that.
"Miss Une?" She questioned a almost meek tone in her child voice. Though she was young, not even sixteen, she had a clear understanding about many things, being trained in politics and such.
"Oh, Marie-maia, could you please go down into the lounge and get a snack and watch some Television in there?" She asked, hiding everything behind a stone chiseled mask.
Marie-maia got the clue and nodded, taking the five dollars Une gave her and a note to the lunch lady that would get her a free lunch to put on her tab. She left quietly, Une's mask falling off and shattering on the floor.
"You can't just bury his humanity!" Zechs heatedly responded.
"Oh, but we can. We did it once and we did it again." Dekim said. "As you can see, we already have our little weapon back securely in our hands. He was just to weak to resist us after what we did to him." Dekim smiled at the thought letting out a sick and demented string of chuckles.
Lady Une stared at the screen in disbelief. All this was happening thanks to Noin, who had taken the extra precaution. "Noin! Sally! Get in here!" She yelled into a microphone, knowing by the volume of her voice if Marie-maia was there would make her jump in her chair at this. She sat down in her chair stiffly as two figures rushed in quickly.
"What is it?" Sally asked with concern etched into her feminine features.
"Look!" She said quickly, pointing to the screen that had Heero's face on it. "I've recorded this into my computer, but I can't upload it until the conversation is finished!"
The two women gasped when they saw Heero's face and took in his blank and vacant features. "What is going on?!" Noin asked, Une put it up onto a big screen monitor that was about as big as poster.
"Why are you doing this?!" Duo shouted, looking with fury at Dekim.
"Why am I doing what? I am merely reclaiming what is mine." He looked at Heero, grinning evilly. "After a the hard work and money I put into him, he'll still need a little more training, but I have so many who would LOVE to see this young boy again." He snapped his fingers. "Do make sure that they are restrained. If you have to, use force, but try not to hurt them. Too much that is."
Heero didn't move and Dekim wore an angry look on his features at this. He growled at the young pilot who was still trying to resist control and pulled out a remote as Heero looked like he was fighting himself. Dekim shouted orders to him, but they seemed to pass right through his ears. He pressed a red button on the remote and it sent electric waves from the dark collar around his neck.
Heero screamed in agony and fell to his knees, gripping his head as though there were commands being sent through him by the electricity. Not to mention the pain of the energy coursing through every vein and part of his body...
The pain was blinding and he collapsed on the floor eyes wide eyed and gasping at the immense torture. H couldn't take much more and the switch was still on. With this, he welcomed the darkness before Dekim could switch the control off.
"Damn." Dekim muttered, his eyes narrowing while looking at the pilot of Zero One. 'Used to much power.'
He looked up and saw the others had their guns raised as they pointed them at him. "That's the last time you'll ever be able to do that. Say goodbye."
"I think that won't be the last time." Dekim said snidely. He pushed the remote all the way up and then pressed another button as Heero thrashed around on the floor, screaming as the pain reached to him even unconscious.
Duo looked at Heero and shot Dekim four times in blind rage as the others sent their body's lurching in the direction of the remote, Heero screaming all the way as Wufei tried to hold him down and get the collar off. "Hurry up!" Wufei shouted, having a hard time holding the strong pilot down.
"He's busted the remote!" Duo rushed over to help Wufei, looking at the collar while Heero screamed obviously awake but oblivious to everything but the pain.
"Hurry up and think of something Maxwell!" Wufei managed to shout to the braided baka over the agonizing cries of 01's Gundam, looked down at the pilot as he trying to think of what he could do also.
"It's too tight to shoot it with a bullet and there's no latch. We'll have to pull it off!" Duo reached for the collar and a strong jolt of pain that felt like he had destructed his Gundam (which had never happened with him in the suit, but he could only imagine) went surging through his body.
He let out a scream and let go of the collar, Wufei glaring at him for this action. He was about to reach for the collar too but stopped when he saw Zechs.
Zechs lunged for the collar and gripped it tightly, pain coursing through his veins while he refused to let to and pulled with all his might.
There was a loud crack and the collar fell to the ground, rippling in electricity from its broken pieces. Zech's fell to the ground, breathing hard while looking at Heero while the other's quickly pulled him up and help the older man to his feet.
Heero's prussain eyes were open after the collar was removed and he breathed heavily as sweat beaded his forehead. The shock was too much for him and he didn't realize anything around him at all.
Loud shouts and noises were coming from the hallway and the stomps of soldiers were heard as they rushed down the hallway. The Gundam pilots and Zechs took off, Wufei helping support Zechs though he made it own his own after five minutes and Heero in a deep, deep oblivious state, Duo supporting him with Zech's help. He winced and closed his eyes, trying to remove himself of the pain. He remembered nothing but pain.
Authors Note:
Well, what do you think? I updated the whole thing on this chapter and it makes it more interesting and less confusing. Reviews are always nice and can be helpful! If you have any suggestions they are always welcome and appreciated thoroughly. . Mnemosyn
Sorry if my authors note made no sense what so ever. You see, I'm typing while on the phone so it's kinda hard for me to multi-task .