Warning: I might change this chapter, it's too...blah, even though its still good, I know I can do better! So be prepared for updates. my other stories may be undergoing changes too.

Chapter 24: Death Bring me Peace:

'God, if there is a god, let me be at peace and forever let my sorrows end now.' He thought, the detonation switch in his hand in front of him.

'The world won't cry for me anyway. I gave them a bloody war and now, this will end everything. War will never be found with my existence and now they can live in peace.'

He thought. 'Goodbye.' He whispered out his last thought as he closed his eyes, pushing the red detonation button as fire and explosions went around all around him, setting off the building in flames like wildfire.

'For you, my Relena.' Was his last thought as pain swept over his body, sending him flying into the flames and debris.

A news reporter stood before the whole scene with many others taking account of the mess. "Currently, a military base with millions of weapons and mobile suits that was recently discovered has been destroyed by unknown explosives.

There are no survivors and no bodies are found due to explosives used on the base. They were determined to be normal, but set off a chain reaction of the other weapons which included biological, much like the atomic bomb, the bodes of the victims and people in this base were dead before they could even think probably.

The number of deaths isn't tallied and will stay unknown for all records on this base were destroyed along with everything else.

Currently, we hope this wasn't a terrorist attack and that there aren't any other bases such as this. Vice Foreign Minister and the other EUSN officials will hopefully make a statement on this sometime these next few weeks." The newscaster concluded. "The ESUN will mourn for the victims of this tragic incident, hoping nothing like this shall be repeated." She bowed her head in respect and the anchor changed ad the news was cast all over the world and colonies

"Get any investigation crew out there!" Une shouted angrily. She couldn't let him die: he had willingly helped her multiple times, going on missions for her, risking his life more than once.

"There's nothing left of the site, even the glass was melted away, there are no survivors." An officer told her quietly, placing a folder on her desk, hiding the picture of the reckless pilot on the one now underneath it.

"Bull!" Une said, showing anger for one of the first times in her life. She slammed her fist down on the table.

The officer stood rigid. "Ma'am, there are NO survivors. We already had a crew out there. There aren't even any bodies." He said sternly.

He turned on his heel and left the room swiftly. She wouldn't listen to him, so he went to go find Sally Po and Noin who were wandering around, helping while trying to comfort Relena.

"He can't be dead!" Relena said, slamming her fist onto the mattress her head was rested on, soaking up the tears flowing from her eyes like melting wax.

"Relena, you have to have faith. Believe in him!" Noin spoke with reassurance.

"Faith!" Relena screeched. "Faith?" She spun around to glare at Noin. "A sill little word that is meant to make people fall into even more despair than they could possibly be in!" Tears, renewed by this, fell freely from her baby blue eyes, which showed pain, conflicted by this whole ordeal.

"No," Noin said calmly. "Faith is something that gives people something to hold on, even in the worst and most helpless situations. It keeps the one you have faith in have something. A fire that never goes out until the faith and hope dies away when you stop believing, not happening for a miracle."

"Heero had no intention of living after that whole place exploded!" Relena shouted, the truth of her words hitting hard.

"Why do you think he did that?" Noin questioned calmly. "He did it for you, Relena." She placed a hand on her shoulder to make the girl look up with a confused and lost look in her eyes. "He was willing to die to make sure that no one would hurt you."

Relena felt truth in these words and sunk into the embrace that Noin welcomed to her, taking all her worries away.

She missed him so much, he couldn't just die on her like that. She wouldn't let him run away from her anymore.

A determined fire fell into her eyes and Noin smiled at this, seemingly knowing what the girl was thinking. 'Heero's got no chance of dying on her now' She thought sweetly, hoping this would bring the two together.

He felt blood and lots of pain. It was the first time that he remembered feeling pain. He remembered Operation Meteor, but there was something a lot of things missing after that. He knew about Gundam, but there was nothing to fill the thin memories he had, which he knew were of his past.

He had managed to make it to the forest before he heard a girl's sobs, showing her pain. His vision became blurry and the girl's sobs stopped as she looked to see what had made the noise.

She staggered to her feet, the memories of the recent event, her Heeroâ€she looked into the bush and found a sight that made her gasp. The bloodied form of a young teenager who was looking at her with a confused look on his face.

"W-who are you?" He questioned, looking around for a place to hide. He would be captured so easily.

He heard a gasped look cross over her features. She knew it was he, the one who she thought had died, butâ€he couldn't remember her?

"Heero!" She cried, pulling the shocked boy into an embrace before hitting one of his wounds, sending him into an unconscious state from the blinding pain.

"He's alive, I just know it." Sally said reassuringly.

"I wish I had your hope." Une said miserably.

The door was slammed open and a soldier appeared with a very flushed tint to his normal paler features. He was panting heavily.

"What is it?" Une said with anger in her voice. She had been having little patience as of recently.

"The soldiers say that they sya a young woman carrying a wounded boy. Severally.

They tried to catch up with her, but she fled as quickly as she could." The soldier brought out a blue folder, showing that the person who had taken him had been of high class in the government and politics. "Her name is Miyyuuki Kasawaii."

"Miyyuuki, why does that sound familiar" The two women pondered over this.

"Do you have a recording of this?" Une asked with earnest. The man nodded, bringing forth the evidence she needed. She smiled and he felt relieved. She had been sporting a frown ever since this whole incident.

"Call in the other's." She said, indicating Noin and the other Gundam Pilots.

"What now?" Duo asked with exasperation, the news obviously not reaching him yet since it was confidential.

"We think that we have found Heero, alive." Une said happily, the guilt lifting off her shoulders.

"What!" Duo said happily, reaching for the file of the person on her desk. He stared at it dumbly, recognition striking him from the young girl with golden locks.

"She looks vaguely familiar." Trowa pointed out, looking at the picture over Duo's shoulder like the others.

Duo's knuckles tightened ever so slightly. "Miyyuuki." He hissed angrily. 'Figures.' His mind huffed as he stared at the picture.

"Yeah, we already have her nameâ€but—"Une was cut off by the look on Duo's face.

"She was the one with Heero, he was suppose to protect her as a "bodyguard" or something. We saw her when we called to drag him on a vacation with us, remember?" He looked at the stricken faces on them, Relena having followed Noin into the room with her eyes stricken and her face almost contorted.

'That struck a nerve.' Trowa noted, it hit him too, though he didn't show it. He had to be strong, memories were useless and he had other things to worry about. Though, the more he tried to reason with himself, the more it hit him over and over, like a broken tape repeating the same scenes. When that man, that cruel and demented man broke their friend.

He had gotten so far, maybe he would actually tell them about himself, even the slightest bit was a long way of progress for him.

His innocence had been lost due to the cruel training he had to endure, though they didn't know exactly what had gone on, they knew it must have been bad.

"Heero's alive" Relena whispered. "He's alive"

She felt like she could handle anything in the world about his condition: he had once again cheated death, once again he had managed to let her come to him in his time of need. Anything she could deal with, anything at all. The world seemed to smile down on her, the sun shone brightly. But the stars didn't shine quite so bright as they used to and the sun shrank away as the clouds darkened.

His demon, her angel.

TBC

Author's note: I'm happy! I finished off my story 'Dark Shadows' on my PC Woo! There's still a lot more chapters, but I decided to try writing the story first and then post it!

Love, Red Tail