Operation: Meteor

Chapter 4: Decisions

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Trowa decided that the others weren't threats at the moment and wanted to see Heero again so he left them to do what they wanted for now. He went back to the last place he knew J was stationed at. He knew that the scientist wasn't going to change bases for another week. He had until then to find a way to get Heero out of there. He knew that Heero didn't want to serve Dr. J but he also knew that Heero had never known anything else. His entire life Heero had belonged to someone. There had always been someone there giving him orders. Now Trowa just had to figure out a way to get him to leave without J's consent. If J were dead then it would be easy because Heero would no longer have a master but it would take a lot to kill J. He wasn't as stupid as S had been. He would have Heero training or being tortured while he was at the base so he wouldn't be a problem but there was still all of the security that a crazy old scientists had thought he would need. Maybe if he could get Heero to help then J would be no problem. But that was a problem in itself because J had trained Heero to be completely loyal. Although the way he did that was constant beatings whenever his paranoid mind thought that someone was betraying him. Which might come in handy to convince Heero to help him. So for the next few days he did watched the place memorizing everyone work schedules and stuff like that. After he was sure he knew them well enough not to get caught he decided to pay Heero a visit to see if he was even interested in being free.

Heero was in his cell when Trowa showed up in between guard shifts. He knocked on the door and then entered hoping Heero wasn't in a killing mood. Fortunately Heero was only lying on his bed and didn't seem to mind the intrusion. Trowa nodded a hello and sat down next to him.

"I wasn't aware you had returned to training with J. When did you arrive?" Heero asked.

Trowa was glad that the conversation was starting so well. Sometimes Heero just wasn't all there and it could be dangerous to even talk to him. Seeing as today was a safe day Trowa decided on telling him everything that happened including the thing with S. He thought that if he were honest then Heero would be more at ease. As he was finishing he thought on how he was going to phrase his question and finally decided that being blunt was the best approach. So he asked if Heero wanted to be free too. Heero looked at him oddly for a moment then replied that he wouldn't know what to do with his freedom if he ever got it since he had never really been free in his life. Heero looked thoughtful for a moment and then said that if Trowa had gotten his freedom and liked it then he might as well give it a try as well. After a pause he said that since he wouldn't know how to act or anything then Trowa would have to be at least a semi-master type figure towards him. Trowa was reluctant but finally agreed.

Then they finally got down to the business of plotting J's death. As it turned out Heero had a few ideas on the topic. But he guessed that should have been a given seeing as he himself had been planning ways to kill S for years. S was a fool though and hadn't thought that his precious tool would ever turn on him. J on the other hand was one of the most paranoid people he had ever met. He would of made back up plans in case any of his operatives turned on him. The room they were in was small, only a few square feet with most of that taken up by a pallet on the floor for Heero to sleep on. He led Heero out of the room and into the hall where he asked in which direction J was. Heero pointed down the hall towards J's office. They headed out towards the office hoping that J was still there. It would be easier if they could just walk in on him and shoot him. Unfortunately luck wasn't with them and the office was empty. J had already left.

Trowa turned towards Heero and asked if he would leave even if J were alive. At first it looked like he was going to say no but then he said he would leave if they could kill him later. Trowa smiled and told him that they would find J later and kill him any way that Heero wanted. At that Heero smirked and started towards the exit. They left the complex and spent the next few hours setting up explosives. As they drove away Heero pushed a button and the whole place went up.

It was a few months after Trowa had left leaving a dead body on the floor. The others had all gotten to know each other and it turned out that they worked really well together. Thought there were of course the occasional fight between Wu-Fei and Duo since there personalities were so different but Quatra was always there to make things better.

They had gone from doing their solo missions to doing bigger missions that required all three of them. With them working together as a team there were a lot more possible targets available for their missions. At first all of the targets were Alliance but soon it became apparent that with them working in the background the war would soon be over. It's not like they wanted war but that is what they were trained to do. So the scientists started accepting jobs from the Alliance as well as the Rebels.

The only person from the Alliance that they really dealt with or worked with was Zechs Marquise. It seemed that he was the only one willing to get his hands dirty or his cause and it wasn't even really his. He only worked with them because he followed Triez Kushrenada. In that aspect he was like them working for someone without regard for your own personal feelings being considered just following orders. Though Duo seemed to be getting tired of playing the good soldier routine and he told Quatra and Wu-Fei whenever they would listen that he didn't like how it felt. He would say that it felt wrong like when he watched 01 or how Trowa was before he left. Eventually Quatra started feeling it as well and it wasn't long after that W-Fei started agreeing saying that the missions were getting more and more immoral and that it would be an injustice to let it continue any longer. But none of them knew what to do about it. They were afraid to bring it up to the scientists since they had seen what happened with Trowa. So they kept it to themselves and continued doing what they were told while trying to find a way out.

It was hard at first but soon it became easier and when they realized that they got scared. They didn't want it to be easy to kill people so indiscriminately. Soon they began to lose hope first it was Duo though he still kept his jesters mask on and was able to fool the others most of the time. Wu-Fei was next he couldn't stand the injustice of it all and ended up trying to kill himself one night. Duo and Quatra watched him closely after that. They hadn't thought that Wu-Fei would ever do anything like that but when they thought about it they wondered if it was the right thing to do when they stopped him. They knew that he had a strong sense of justice and of what was right and wrong. It must have been killing him to have to keep all of that emotion locked up inside of himself.

They decided that they needed to do something about their situation. They couldn't do anything drastic at first so they started with small things like instead of having three rooms they all moved into one. While staying in one room they were able to get to know each other better and so they started talking a lot more about the things that bothered them. Even though they talked more now they still felt that what they were doing was wrong and though Wu-Fei never tried to kill himself again he had found an outlet in cutting himself. The other two knew about it and they talked about it. At first they had tried to make him stop but they came to realize that it really did help him and that he wouldn't hurt himself too badly. Just in case they agreed that it would be best if he only did it when they were around to help him in case he went too deep.

Things seemed to go like that for a few more months an then they had some unexpected guests. As it turned out Trowa and Heero had spent the months they were gone tracking J down. When they had finally caught up to him he was holed up in a in a rundown motel in a bad part of a bad town. J had taught them not to leave loose ends. They killed him as soon as he came within range of the gun. Trowa told Heero about the others and they had decided that it would be fun to come back and see how they were doing.

As it turned out they weren't doing that well. Trowa asked what was wrong and Quatra filled him in on what had happened to them. He even told them about Wu-Fei's suicide attempt and his problem with cutting. Trowa smiled and told them that everything was going to be okay soon. First off they just needed to regroup. He asked Quatra to gather the others and tell them to get some clothes and be ready to leave in thirty minutes. At first Quatra seemed surprised that Trowa was willing to help them but he got over it and went to do as he was told.

The others seemed cautious at first especially Duo. He downright refused to leave unless Trowa explained some things to them. He asked why 01 would want to help them and he said that the last time he had seen Trowa he seemed to be thoroughly insane. Trowa nodded and explained that he was in the same situation they were in now with a little bit more. So was 01 who he introduced as Heero. They had both gotten out of their situations and wanted to help the others.

"We want to help you because we know what you're going through. We were trained to work with you and I guess that is part of the reason as well. I just feel a little protective of you three I suppose. I know what will happen to you if we leave you here and there is no point in it."

He looked to Duo and asked if he would leave with them. Duo was smiling as he looked at Trowa. He said that if they could help then of course they were leaving. They were all worried about the scientists though. Heero told them that the scientists had heard about what had happened to J and were going in to hiding now. For now they wouldn't be able to find them but they would start looking soon. Until then they would go in to hiding as well and give themselves some time to recover. It would be nice not having to kill people for a while. With that decided they headed out.

They weren't quite sure where they were going but Heero said he knew a safe place for now. They ended up leaving the country and going to Germany. There was a house for sale in a nice city and they bought it deciding that they should all stay together. It had three bedrooms, two bathrooms a nice kitchen and a living room. They moved in and then Heero forged the papers saying that they now owned the house then he hacked into the real-estate computer system and fixed their files. Even though there was three bedrooms Trowa and Heero shared one while Quatra Wu-Fei and Duo shared another leaving the third open for a shared room. Over all it was quite nice and the boys started to adjust to their new home almost immediately.

TBC…Sorry about the slow updates! I'm trying to work on it I promise. I am going to go into more detail in the next chapter so don't worry. Please review!