Disclaimer: Hi, I own nothing except the new characters that you've never
heard before except Niko and Daga. They belong to my friend Niko
Nightwind. Please R&R. I haven't really gotten many.
Gundam Wing Episode 16 *Death Returns the Group* 4:00am
Fallen Angle is already destroying mobil dolls as the pilots exit the moon base. Quatre takes a look back realizing there are only six suits on their side including him. "Wait. what about Duo. Do you think he's ok. that he made it out?" Quatre says worried. There's a long pause from the other pilots.
"Duo's resourceful. I pretty sure he made it out ok, Quatre." Trowa says coming up on screen.
"The only thing we can do now is get out of here." Heero promptly starts firing on mobil Dolls as they start emerging from where they exited.
"I'm not sure about you guys but I'm not going to let Niko have all the fun." Wufei charges forward, Trowa following. Quatre hesitates, taking one last look at the base. I hope you're right Trowa.
"Come on Quatre. Lets get out of here, ok" Shimi says understandingly. Quatre sighs and heads into battle.
******
"It seems your prisoners have escaped Mr. Lan." Mr. Lowe say slightly irritated. He watches the fighting mobil suits destroy the mobil suits with ease on the screen in front of them. "I'm hoping this. is part of your plan."
"Yes. though they escaped sooner then expected." They're more resourceful then I thought. Mr. Lan opens the top drawer of his desk and pulls out a disk. After loading it in the computer he smiles. "Let's see how they do against mobil dolls that have data on all five original pilots." This ought to be amusing.
"As long as one of the original five escape, your plan will still work right."
"Yes"
"Didn't you have more information on the pilots then that?"
"Don't remind me" Mr. Lan scowls remembering.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
A black fox shows up on his computer screen. Its red eyes shine bright in the screen. "What the." The fox looks at him a moment before casually going to the back where his folders are and starts picking them up. The fox starts to walk away with the folders carefully tucked under his arm. "Hey! You put those back!" the fox stops and looks as though he heard him.
He sighs and drops the folders. Shrugging he takes out a welder's mask and puts it on then pulls out a blow torch. He lets it lose on the folders. "What, why you little!" the fox puts away his stuff and snickers at him then takes out a paintbrush with rainbow paint. He writes "Mischievous was here!!!!!" in the background. The fox runs up to the screen taking out a mallet. At the last second the computer turns off and starts to smoke. "This had better be someone's idea of a sick joke!" Li says though clinched teeth.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"You can thank Fox for our not knowing who the pilots are."
******
"AAAHHHH!!!" Shimi gets thrown back, her beam cannon get blasted out of her hands.
"Shimi are you ok?" Quatre asks catching her from behind.
"I guess so. What did they do change the level of difficulty or something?" Both fire there beam cannons but the dolls dodge easily and seem to maneuver around them.
Quatre watches them closely a moment. She's right. Quatre grabs Shimi's free hand and jets upward as all firing at once. They all blow up in a giant fireball. That was too close. If we were any closer we would have been caught in the explosion. There suits jump in front of them and fire on them. Both blast away from each other only to find themselves surrounded by three more so if they dodged one, they got hit by another.
******
They must have added new data into them. Heero jerks back evading a blast from the side. He boosts upward and blasts the three suits below him. Aiming at another suit he fires. It dodges easily and they exchange fire. This fighting style. its Trowa. A suit from behind blasts his gun out of his hand then the other suits beam cannon. Another mobil suit behind that one blows it up. They can't distinguish between enemies suits. He dodges another blast. As he moves up, he bumps into another suit. Trowa comes up on screen. Trowa
"Notice something strange about these suits."
"Yeah, we can use this to our advantage." Heero pulls back. "Behind you" Trowa lifts his beam cannon, but the suit blows up before he gets a chance to fire.
"You two should really watch your back more." Niko says popping up on screen with Wufei.
"There's a clear way out of here if we keep going forward," Wufei doubles back avoiding a heavy fire. "I'm going to go help Quatre and Shimi. Shimi's not the best pilot in the world."
******
"Shimi do you even know how to pilot a suit?" Quatre asks leading the way through numerous suits dodging fire while still holding her hand.
"I do. it's just. I'm not used to this kind of model. Sorry about this Quatre."
"It's ok" he suddenly stops and Shimi bumps into him. This isn't good.
"What's the matter Quatre?"
"We're surrounded on all sides." He looks around. If blast one, we'll get caught in a domino effect of explosions. The only way is to barrel through. "Shimi, I want to barricade through that one on the left."
"Sure I can do that. Hold on Quatre, I'm leading the way out."
"Shimi, I think it'd be best if you let go first!!!" Not hearing him she slams into the suit and with her free hand rips the beam cannon from its hand before booting straight up and over.
"Did you say something Quatre?"
"Yes, but there's no need for it now." He says rubbing the bump on the back of his head. "Just keep going forward." She gets a ways ahead before stopping. Her face suddenly turns to worry as she looks to her side. "What's the matter?"
"I must have hit the suit too hard. I made Jeff's condition worse. Jeff, can you sit up?"
"I sprained my wrist that's all." His voice is small, but chocked with pain.
"Just keep going, but try not to do any sudden stops." What we need is a pathway out of here. Just then, a series of exploding suits make a pathway for them to escape.
"You two ok?" Wufei asks then looks at Shimi angrily. "If you don't know how to pilot you shouldn't have taken one!" Shimi scowls at him not saying a word.
"Thanks, Wufei"
"I don't deserve the thanks, Quatre."
"You didn't do this? Then who?" a Gundam stops in front of them. That gundam. I've seen it before.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"Wait" Sophia turns giving one last look at him before running off when he started to follow. He starts to catch up when she just disappears. He stops a moment looking in disbelief then continues. He hits something that sounded like metal. "What's this?"
Just then, he hears a familiar sound. A sound he hadn't heard since the Mariemaia incident, the sound of a mobil suit coming to life. Then, all at once he saw it like someone turning on a light in a dark garage. He stood at the thigh of the gundam. The suit was entirely black only because of the cloak it wore. At the same time the cloak seemed to be part of it like skin or hair would be to a person.
He climbs it when he sees the cockpit's still open. The gundam had sat up and sand continues to fall from it like multiple streams. He makes it to the cockpit as it starts to close. He's surprised to see nothing inside except a ring over head and the platform Sophia's standing on. It felt like walking into a small room.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"Don't tell me you forgot about me already, Quatre." Duo pops up on screen dressed skin tight body suit that Quatre recognized immediate.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
Quatre makes it to the cockpit as it starts to close and is surprised to see nothing inside except a ring over head and the platform Sophia's standing on. It felt like walking into a small room.
Sophia sits cross-legged on the platform with her back turned to him. He notices her clothes have changed. It looked like a diver's suit, only deep purple and the neck and shoulders are exposed. On her shoulders is something that looks like blue shoulder pads with two antenna sticking out of each.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"That's the same suit Sophia wore." Duo looks at Quatre surprised.
"You've seen this uniform before?"
"We can talk about the suit later." Wufei says softly. "It's best if we escape. I want to see the suit for myself." If she's already made one no doubt she's working on others. I'll have to put a stop to her Gundam making. but we could use them for the battles to come. I'll have to talk to her. Quatre notices that he seemed to be lost in thought.
"Are you ok, Wufei?"
"I'm fine Quatre. lets go." He heads off first leading the way. Quatre and Duo exchange glances of uncertainty before following.
******
I can't believe I'm back here. Fox looks up at the big white mansion he'd been in before. Suit case in hand, he knocks on the front door then rings the door bell before it was opened. Two familiar faces answer the door.
"Well, well, well look who finally came back and with a suit case instead of just a book bag, Isra."
"Aladdin, Isra how have you guys been since the last time I saw you two?"
"We've been great and you?" Isra leans a bit on the door.
"Fine," Fox steps forward to enter, but they block his way. "Fellas. Can I enter the premises?" they exchange glances before closing the door in his face.
"I don't know Isra, should we let him in?" Aladdin says playfully. An annoyed look crosses Fox's face.
"Come on guys." he knocks again. "This isn't funny!!! Open up!" He bangs his head on the door. I can't believe I'm back here. He moans. The door opens again. "Very funny guys"
"Just kidding Tikki or do we call you Fox, now?" Isra asks taking his suit case.
"Call me Tikki and thanks." He walks inside.
"So, Quatre's not back yet and he wouldn't tell you where he went, huh." Something tells me Rashid has a vague idea of what he might be doing. I can tell he's worried. Tikki looks at the head four around him. Instead of his usual play attitude, his attitude finally matched his serious expression. "You shouldn't worry so much Rashid. I'm promise he'll be back soon and in one piece." There's a long pause as they all look at Tikki.
"You know something we don't do you, Fox?" Rashid says calmly. Some of the worry escapes his face.
"I'd be lying if I said I didn't and call me, Tikki. Fox is my code name. Many people know that name, so for now it might be too dangerous to even use it." I wonder if anyone actually missed me.
"Welcome back." Well what do you know they did miss me Tikki thinks to himself. A smile forms on his face as he stands. "It's been quiet without you around to stir up trouble." The smile fades returning to its lifeless calm state. "Oh and one more thing" Auda takes out a clip board out of the drawer next to him. "You have some things you need to pay from your last stay here."
"Okay. sure." He walks to Rashid. Well it can't be too bad. I only broke a few things.
"What needs to be paid for?"
"You broke two windows, ten vases, three tables, a dozen plates." Afmahd reads over Auda's shoulder.
"Hey, one of those windows weren't my fault. I told you I don't know how that baseball got in your window. Ok, I thought if I gave the kids a place to play baseball." He gives Tikki a stern look. "I wanted them to have a nice place to play. Quatre didn't disapprove; he liked seeing them out his study. Fine, Geeze, I'll pay for the window."
"And all the damages to Master Quatre's bedroom. and that seems to be all." They say together.
"What?"
"From what I gather Tikki that fox that saved Quatre belongs to you." Rashid says in his normal serious manner, but this time he had a hint of enjoyment in his voice as well as a smile.
"Nothing gets past you huh, Rashid." Tikki utters uneasily. And. everything's back to normal. "So, now that all my moneys spent and I won't be leaving for a . while. Who wants to buy me an ice cream? .anyone."
******
Sally and Daga wait for the suits to land in the hanger. As they exit their mobil suits. Shimi smiles at the familiar suit she knew her friend designed and made.
"Wow, I can't believe she finished it. I bet Sophia sent that suit to help us." Shimi says to the others as she helps Jeff to his feet. When they get down Sally quickly comes over to help. "Sally can you do something about my brother's injuries."
"Brother. but isn't that-" Sally looks at Shimi confused a moment especially when Quatre walks up to her.
"Come of Jeffrey change back. We're all friends here." Ignoring his sister's wishes he warps into Heero startling Sally and Daga. "JEFFERY!" He flinches at the sound of his name and blushes before changing back to his true form. His eyes still yellow, but not glowing looked like a regular fourteen year old except for the long lizard like tail that connected to the back of his head that from a distance would be mistaken for hair wrapped in a long head cloth. "He's shy. never really been around regular people." Sally gives him a friendly smile.
"Come with me and I'll see what we can do." Shimi hands her brother over to Sally. "Do you think you can walk?"
"Yeah," he looks up to see his sister walk. "Shimi, you're not coming with me."
"Naaaa, don't wanna hear you scream. painful on the ears you know." An evil smile forms on her face as the fear grows in his face. Sally clearly sees what Shimi's doing. "Watch out for her giant needles."
"You're not going to use any needles are you?" he asks with a worried look.
"There are no needles. I promise." Sally says half laughing. "Come on Jeffrey." Shimi watches them as they both leave. That ought to keep him from doing anything rash while he's here. but just in case I'll follow behind them.
"Where are you going Shimi?" Quatre asks as she starts to walk away after Sally and Jeff had already disappeared around the corner.
"Just making sure brother lizard doesn't do anything he won't regret." Quatre watches as she walks casually out of the hanger and into the hallway after the two. I guess she knows what's she's doing.
As Shimi starts after Sally and Jeff, Wufei gives her a cold look. What does he want? Just ignore him.
"Why did you finally decide to finally break us out of the 3rd day?" He says coldly. Shimi blows up in his face.
"I'm sick of you and your mouth! If Sophia didn't like you I'd rip your heart out! That is if you had one!"
"We all saw how easily you broke those chains, Shimi. Next time kill us yourself."
"I'm only human, Wufei. Changing twice my size takes a lot out of me." They glare at each.
"Wufei-" Trowa puts a hand on his shoulder stopping him. He shakes his head indicating he shouldn't interfere. "But Trowa."
"Let her stand up for herself. If you help her Wufei will never respect her."
"You have no right piloting a suit in the heat of battle if you're a novice." He looks away from her. "I refuse to work with an irresponsible woman."
"Fine, at least you consider me a woman." Shimi says angrily storming out. There's a moment of quiet before Duo clears his throat.
"This gundam is different and I don't mean just the design."
"Duo, I'm curious how you found ShadowScythe."
"ShadowScythe?" Everyone's attention turns to Quatre.
"You remember the gundam plans I found in Fox's computer, the ones I couldn't send to you. This is one of them."
"Before we even consider the gundam guys, we have to see what T-Rex girl injected you with. I'm going to need blood samples from all of you." Niko says stuffing his hands in his pockets.
"Ok, Sina, what'd you find?" Niko asks a girl that had the same icy blue eyes as Niko, but her hair was different. It was a white blond color, cut at chin length, and the corkscrew curls that all three of them had bounced all over the place. She was wearing a sleeveless white shirt and loose white pants. Over it all she was wearing a white lab coat. Niko had sent her the blood samples of the five pilots. They sit at a long table, the kind you'd find in a business meeting. Niko sits at the head. Duo and Trowa sit next to each other with Heero, Wufei, and Quatre sit across from them as Daga enters. She takes a seat between Niko and Heero.
"Well, it's made so that the body would use it as stored energy, just like after eating your body uses food for energy and would store the rest as fat." Sina say after a short pause.
"So all we have to do is work it off." Duo says as he taps his fingers on the desk.
"Yes, but it's not that simple."
"What she means Duo is that because it's stored in fat cells, we might never really get rid of it all." Quatre says looking a bit concerned.
"I'm afraid Mr. Winner's right." She says as Shimi walks in. "Unless you really have too, I advise you to stay where you are so we could keep an eye on you."
"So what exactly are you looking for?" Trowa asks.
"The girl said that she was working on a splicer vaccine, so I'm guessing. we're looking for a transformation." Niko leans back in his chair facing Sina on the screen.
"So. we could change like Shimi." Duo says taping his nails faster on the table. That sounds cool, but do I really want to change into an animal especially when I don't know what I'm going to change into. "Exactly, how long it would take to change back if we changed into. you know?" He stops taping and digs his claws into the desk. The others look at him as he jumps up startled at the claw marks in the table and his new claws. Shimi pats him on the head then scratches behind his newly formed cat ears.
"Well for one thing, Duo, if you panic you change," Shimi says half laughing. "That's rule number one. Sit panther boy." He sits down a bit embarrassed. "I'm an expert on splicers when they first start to transform. They all freak out when they first start to change, its natural. If you guys need help in anything just ask me." Wufei stands up and leaves the room after mumbling something under his breath about Shimi's last remark. Why is he always like that? Just ignore him. stay calm. A smile forms on her face after she takes in a deep breath and lets it out. Watch him suffer later when he needs help and can't control it.
Gundam Wing Episode 16 *Death Returns the Group* 4:00am
Fallen Angle is already destroying mobil dolls as the pilots exit the moon base. Quatre takes a look back realizing there are only six suits on their side including him. "Wait. what about Duo. Do you think he's ok. that he made it out?" Quatre says worried. There's a long pause from the other pilots.
"Duo's resourceful. I pretty sure he made it out ok, Quatre." Trowa says coming up on screen.
"The only thing we can do now is get out of here." Heero promptly starts firing on mobil Dolls as they start emerging from where they exited.
"I'm not sure about you guys but I'm not going to let Niko have all the fun." Wufei charges forward, Trowa following. Quatre hesitates, taking one last look at the base. I hope you're right Trowa.
"Come on Quatre. Lets get out of here, ok" Shimi says understandingly. Quatre sighs and heads into battle.
******
"It seems your prisoners have escaped Mr. Lan." Mr. Lowe say slightly irritated. He watches the fighting mobil suits destroy the mobil suits with ease on the screen in front of them. "I'm hoping this. is part of your plan."
"Yes. though they escaped sooner then expected." They're more resourceful then I thought. Mr. Lan opens the top drawer of his desk and pulls out a disk. After loading it in the computer he smiles. "Let's see how they do against mobil dolls that have data on all five original pilots." This ought to be amusing.
"As long as one of the original five escape, your plan will still work right."
"Yes"
"Didn't you have more information on the pilots then that?"
"Don't remind me" Mr. Lan scowls remembering.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
A black fox shows up on his computer screen. Its red eyes shine bright in the screen. "What the." The fox looks at him a moment before casually going to the back where his folders are and starts picking them up. The fox starts to walk away with the folders carefully tucked under his arm. "Hey! You put those back!" the fox stops and looks as though he heard him.
He sighs and drops the folders. Shrugging he takes out a welder's mask and puts it on then pulls out a blow torch. He lets it lose on the folders. "What, why you little!" the fox puts away his stuff and snickers at him then takes out a paintbrush with rainbow paint. He writes "Mischievous was here!!!!!" in the background. The fox runs up to the screen taking out a mallet. At the last second the computer turns off and starts to smoke. "This had better be someone's idea of a sick joke!" Li says though clinched teeth.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"You can thank Fox for our not knowing who the pilots are."
******
"AAAHHHH!!!" Shimi gets thrown back, her beam cannon get blasted out of her hands.
"Shimi are you ok?" Quatre asks catching her from behind.
"I guess so. What did they do change the level of difficulty or something?" Both fire there beam cannons but the dolls dodge easily and seem to maneuver around them.
Quatre watches them closely a moment. She's right. Quatre grabs Shimi's free hand and jets upward as all firing at once. They all blow up in a giant fireball. That was too close. If we were any closer we would have been caught in the explosion. There suits jump in front of them and fire on them. Both blast away from each other only to find themselves surrounded by three more so if they dodged one, they got hit by another.
******
They must have added new data into them. Heero jerks back evading a blast from the side. He boosts upward and blasts the three suits below him. Aiming at another suit he fires. It dodges easily and they exchange fire. This fighting style. its Trowa. A suit from behind blasts his gun out of his hand then the other suits beam cannon. Another mobil suit behind that one blows it up. They can't distinguish between enemies suits. He dodges another blast. As he moves up, he bumps into another suit. Trowa comes up on screen. Trowa
"Notice something strange about these suits."
"Yeah, we can use this to our advantage." Heero pulls back. "Behind you" Trowa lifts his beam cannon, but the suit blows up before he gets a chance to fire.
"You two should really watch your back more." Niko says popping up on screen with Wufei.
"There's a clear way out of here if we keep going forward," Wufei doubles back avoiding a heavy fire. "I'm going to go help Quatre and Shimi. Shimi's not the best pilot in the world."
******
"Shimi do you even know how to pilot a suit?" Quatre asks leading the way through numerous suits dodging fire while still holding her hand.
"I do. it's just. I'm not used to this kind of model. Sorry about this Quatre."
"It's ok" he suddenly stops and Shimi bumps into him. This isn't good.
"What's the matter Quatre?"
"We're surrounded on all sides." He looks around. If blast one, we'll get caught in a domino effect of explosions. The only way is to barrel through. "Shimi, I want to barricade through that one on the left."
"Sure I can do that. Hold on Quatre, I'm leading the way out."
"Shimi, I think it'd be best if you let go first!!!" Not hearing him she slams into the suit and with her free hand rips the beam cannon from its hand before booting straight up and over.
"Did you say something Quatre?"
"Yes, but there's no need for it now." He says rubbing the bump on the back of his head. "Just keep going forward." She gets a ways ahead before stopping. Her face suddenly turns to worry as she looks to her side. "What's the matter?"
"I must have hit the suit too hard. I made Jeff's condition worse. Jeff, can you sit up?"
"I sprained my wrist that's all." His voice is small, but chocked with pain.
"Just keep going, but try not to do any sudden stops." What we need is a pathway out of here. Just then, a series of exploding suits make a pathway for them to escape.
"You two ok?" Wufei asks then looks at Shimi angrily. "If you don't know how to pilot you shouldn't have taken one!" Shimi scowls at him not saying a word.
"Thanks, Wufei"
"I don't deserve the thanks, Quatre."
"You didn't do this? Then who?" a Gundam stops in front of them. That gundam. I've seen it before.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"Wait" Sophia turns giving one last look at him before running off when he started to follow. He starts to catch up when she just disappears. He stops a moment looking in disbelief then continues. He hits something that sounded like metal. "What's this?"
Just then, he hears a familiar sound. A sound he hadn't heard since the Mariemaia incident, the sound of a mobil suit coming to life. Then, all at once he saw it like someone turning on a light in a dark garage. He stood at the thigh of the gundam. The suit was entirely black only because of the cloak it wore. At the same time the cloak seemed to be part of it like skin or hair would be to a person.
He climbs it when he sees the cockpit's still open. The gundam had sat up and sand continues to fall from it like multiple streams. He makes it to the cockpit as it starts to close. He's surprised to see nothing inside except a ring over head and the platform Sophia's standing on. It felt like walking into a small room.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"Don't tell me you forgot about me already, Quatre." Duo pops up on screen dressed skin tight body suit that Quatre recognized immediate.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
Quatre makes it to the cockpit as it starts to close and is surprised to see nothing inside except a ring over head and the platform Sophia's standing on. It felt like walking into a small room.
Sophia sits cross-legged on the platform with her back turned to him. He notices her clothes have changed. It looked like a diver's suit, only deep purple and the neck and shoulders are exposed. On her shoulders is something that looks like blue shoulder pads with two antenna sticking out of each.
~~~~~Flash~~~~~
"That's the same suit Sophia wore." Duo looks at Quatre surprised.
"You've seen this uniform before?"
"We can talk about the suit later." Wufei says softly. "It's best if we escape. I want to see the suit for myself." If she's already made one no doubt she's working on others. I'll have to put a stop to her Gundam making. but we could use them for the battles to come. I'll have to talk to her. Quatre notices that he seemed to be lost in thought.
"Are you ok, Wufei?"
"I'm fine Quatre. lets go." He heads off first leading the way. Quatre and Duo exchange glances of uncertainty before following.
******
I can't believe I'm back here. Fox looks up at the big white mansion he'd been in before. Suit case in hand, he knocks on the front door then rings the door bell before it was opened. Two familiar faces answer the door.
"Well, well, well look who finally came back and with a suit case instead of just a book bag, Isra."
"Aladdin, Isra how have you guys been since the last time I saw you two?"
"We've been great and you?" Isra leans a bit on the door.
"Fine," Fox steps forward to enter, but they block his way. "Fellas. Can I enter the premises?" they exchange glances before closing the door in his face.
"I don't know Isra, should we let him in?" Aladdin says playfully. An annoyed look crosses Fox's face.
"Come on guys." he knocks again. "This isn't funny!!! Open up!" He bangs his head on the door. I can't believe I'm back here. He moans. The door opens again. "Very funny guys"
"Just kidding Tikki or do we call you Fox, now?" Isra asks taking his suit case.
"Call me Tikki and thanks." He walks inside.
"So, Quatre's not back yet and he wouldn't tell you where he went, huh." Something tells me Rashid has a vague idea of what he might be doing. I can tell he's worried. Tikki looks at the head four around him. Instead of his usual play attitude, his attitude finally matched his serious expression. "You shouldn't worry so much Rashid. I'm promise he'll be back soon and in one piece." There's a long pause as they all look at Tikki.
"You know something we don't do you, Fox?" Rashid says calmly. Some of the worry escapes his face.
"I'd be lying if I said I didn't and call me, Tikki. Fox is my code name. Many people know that name, so for now it might be too dangerous to even use it." I wonder if anyone actually missed me.
"Welcome back." Well what do you know they did miss me Tikki thinks to himself. A smile forms on his face as he stands. "It's been quiet without you around to stir up trouble." The smile fades returning to its lifeless calm state. "Oh and one more thing" Auda takes out a clip board out of the drawer next to him. "You have some things you need to pay from your last stay here."
"Okay. sure." He walks to Rashid. Well it can't be too bad. I only broke a few things.
"What needs to be paid for?"
"You broke two windows, ten vases, three tables, a dozen plates." Afmahd reads over Auda's shoulder.
"Hey, one of those windows weren't my fault. I told you I don't know how that baseball got in your window. Ok, I thought if I gave the kids a place to play baseball." He gives Tikki a stern look. "I wanted them to have a nice place to play. Quatre didn't disapprove; he liked seeing them out his study. Fine, Geeze, I'll pay for the window."
"And all the damages to Master Quatre's bedroom. and that seems to be all." They say together.
"What?"
"From what I gather Tikki that fox that saved Quatre belongs to you." Rashid says in his normal serious manner, but this time he had a hint of enjoyment in his voice as well as a smile.
"Nothing gets past you huh, Rashid." Tikki utters uneasily. And. everything's back to normal. "So, now that all my moneys spent and I won't be leaving for a . while. Who wants to buy me an ice cream? .anyone."
******
Sally and Daga wait for the suits to land in the hanger. As they exit their mobil suits. Shimi smiles at the familiar suit she knew her friend designed and made.
"Wow, I can't believe she finished it. I bet Sophia sent that suit to help us." Shimi says to the others as she helps Jeff to his feet. When they get down Sally quickly comes over to help. "Sally can you do something about my brother's injuries."
"Brother. but isn't that-" Sally looks at Shimi confused a moment especially when Quatre walks up to her.
"Come of Jeffrey change back. We're all friends here." Ignoring his sister's wishes he warps into Heero startling Sally and Daga. "JEFFERY!" He flinches at the sound of his name and blushes before changing back to his true form. His eyes still yellow, but not glowing looked like a regular fourteen year old except for the long lizard like tail that connected to the back of his head that from a distance would be mistaken for hair wrapped in a long head cloth. "He's shy. never really been around regular people." Sally gives him a friendly smile.
"Come with me and I'll see what we can do." Shimi hands her brother over to Sally. "Do you think you can walk?"
"Yeah," he looks up to see his sister walk. "Shimi, you're not coming with me."
"Naaaa, don't wanna hear you scream. painful on the ears you know." An evil smile forms on her face as the fear grows in his face. Sally clearly sees what Shimi's doing. "Watch out for her giant needles."
"You're not going to use any needles are you?" he asks with a worried look.
"There are no needles. I promise." Sally says half laughing. "Come on Jeffrey." Shimi watches them as they both leave. That ought to keep him from doing anything rash while he's here. but just in case I'll follow behind them.
"Where are you going Shimi?" Quatre asks as she starts to walk away after Sally and Jeff had already disappeared around the corner.
"Just making sure brother lizard doesn't do anything he won't regret." Quatre watches as she walks casually out of the hanger and into the hallway after the two. I guess she knows what's she's doing.
As Shimi starts after Sally and Jeff, Wufei gives her a cold look. What does he want? Just ignore him.
"Why did you finally decide to finally break us out of the 3rd day?" He says coldly. Shimi blows up in his face.
"I'm sick of you and your mouth! If Sophia didn't like you I'd rip your heart out! That is if you had one!"
"We all saw how easily you broke those chains, Shimi. Next time kill us yourself."
"I'm only human, Wufei. Changing twice my size takes a lot out of me." They glare at each.
"Wufei-" Trowa puts a hand on his shoulder stopping him. He shakes his head indicating he shouldn't interfere. "But Trowa."
"Let her stand up for herself. If you help her Wufei will never respect her."
"You have no right piloting a suit in the heat of battle if you're a novice." He looks away from her. "I refuse to work with an irresponsible woman."
"Fine, at least you consider me a woman." Shimi says angrily storming out. There's a moment of quiet before Duo clears his throat.
"This gundam is different and I don't mean just the design."
"Duo, I'm curious how you found ShadowScythe."
"ShadowScythe?" Everyone's attention turns to Quatre.
"You remember the gundam plans I found in Fox's computer, the ones I couldn't send to you. This is one of them."
"Before we even consider the gundam guys, we have to see what T-Rex girl injected you with. I'm going to need blood samples from all of you." Niko says stuffing his hands in his pockets.
"Ok, Sina, what'd you find?" Niko asks a girl that had the same icy blue eyes as Niko, but her hair was different. It was a white blond color, cut at chin length, and the corkscrew curls that all three of them had bounced all over the place. She was wearing a sleeveless white shirt and loose white pants. Over it all she was wearing a white lab coat. Niko had sent her the blood samples of the five pilots. They sit at a long table, the kind you'd find in a business meeting. Niko sits at the head. Duo and Trowa sit next to each other with Heero, Wufei, and Quatre sit across from them as Daga enters. She takes a seat between Niko and Heero.
"Well, it's made so that the body would use it as stored energy, just like after eating your body uses food for energy and would store the rest as fat." Sina say after a short pause.
"So all we have to do is work it off." Duo says as he taps his fingers on the desk.
"Yes, but it's not that simple."
"What she means Duo is that because it's stored in fat cells, we might never really get rid of it all." Quatre says looking a bit concerned.
"I'm afraid Mr. Winner's right." She says as Shimi walks in. "Unless you really have too, I advise you to stay where you are so we could keep an eye on you."
"So what exactly are you looking for?" Trowa asks.
"The girl said that she was working on a splicer vaccine, so I'm guessing. we're looking for a transformation." Niko leans back in his chair facing Sina on the screen.
"So. we could change like Shimi." Duo says taping his nails faster on the table. That sounds cool, but do I really want to change into an animal especially when I don't know what I'm going to change into. "Exactly, how long it would take to change back if we changed into. you know?" He stops taping and digs his claws into the desk. The others look at him as he jumps up startled at the claw marks in the table and his new claws. Shimi pats him on the head then scratches behind his newly formed cat ears.
"Well for one thing, Duo, if you panic you change," Shimi says half laughing. "That's rule number one. Sit panther boy." He sits down a bit embarrassed. "I'm an expert on splicers when they first start to transform. They all freak out when they first start to change, its natural. If you guys need help in anything just ask me." Wufei stands up and leaves the room after mumbling something under his breath about Shimi's last remark. Why is he always like that? Just ignore him. stay calm. A smile forms on her face after she takes in a deep breath and lets it out. Watch him suffer later when he needs help and can't control it.
