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Gundam Wing Episode 24

Trust

8:01a.m.

It took me almost a whole month, but it was worth it. The two red eyes watch as Sophia exit the house from up in a nearby tree. Leaving so soon Sophia. He listens to the keys jingle in her hands as she lams the door shut. The three steps without warning turn into a ramp. She slides down nearly falling on her face. Shaken by the sudden drop, she looks up at the house.

"Mischievous behave; I'll be gone for about two hours. Watch the house for me." She smiles as the back door locks for her. Taking the motorcycle beside the house, she leaves.

"I'll be waiting for you to come back young lady. He looks at the house as she leaves. I have some work to do anyway. He takes his time walking to the house.

A giant screen comes down above Shimi's bed. It turns on. The little fox's smile fades seeing she was also asleep. It sighs then walks back and forth on the screen thinking. A light bulb flashes on its head. He grabs the light bulb and flashes it in her face. He shines it brighter and brighter and when she tried to turn away from it the screen went with her.

Annoyed by the continual light, she lets out an abrupt roar that wakes everyone. She puts the over her head a moment, but sits up. Mischievous peaks up from the bottom of the screen.

"It's just Mischievous," Dr J moans and the other four scientists follow his example to go back to sleep.

"What do you want?" Everyone's face, that could fit, pops up on screen. "Check the guest file." The pictures disappear and the red eyed fox returns on screen only this time with a book in his hands.

"So, what's the deal with the animated fox?" Duo asks still somewhat asleep.

"He's a computer virus Sophia made as a back up security system for the house."

"Is that wise to do that?" Quatre asks; looking up from the book Mischievous shakes his head and then stomps off clearly angry with what he had said about him.

"Don't worry he usually behaves well." Suddenly pictures start to pop up on screen. That's strange I though for sure I put them in. "I'll enter them in later; don't let any strangers in the house, and I want no harm to come to anyone in this house registered or not ok." The little fox solutes Shimi before blipping out, she goes back to sleep.

Heero looks at the blank screen a moment; Duo shrugs going back to sleep. I have a bad feeling about that virus. He glances at Trowa. They both seem to be thinking the same thing.

A cloaked man removes his disk form the computer and then takes the mouse. He clicks on the present on the screen before leaving the room. Looking down the hall he decides to explore. Picking the first door, he peaks inside. Two girls around 13 years of age were sleeping on bunk beds. The darts in the room when a door opens down the hall; he listens to the footsteps as they come closer. He then peeks out the crack he left in the door. Niko Nightwind, so you're here too.

He watches him yawn and open the bathroom door. The cloaked man takes out what looks like a thick pen. Pressing a button, it extends; he moves behind Niko. Bring it down, an ax blade slides out. It cuts deep into the screen that shot down just in time. Startled Niko turns around. Sparks fly from the screen. The bathroom door instantly shuts locking him outside. He then rips his weapon from the screen. All the doors lock leaving him stranded outside. Hum... nice security system. Too bad it won't be for long. He heads to the end of the hall going downstairs.

"Good morning, Trowa," Quatre says as he enters the kitchen. "Did you have any luck finding where she hid the gundams?" He opens the basement door.

"Unfortunately no," he follows Quatre down the basement stares and to the computer.

"I'm hoping we could get some leads from her computer."

"Has Sophia come home yet?"

"Yes, she's in her room," he stops for a moment after turning on the computer. Wait he was there with me.

"Have you figured me out yet, Mr. Winner?" he asks after grabbing some wire off a nearby shelf. Without warning he grabs his hand from the keyboard and twists his arm behind him. "This shouldn't take too long." It wasn't long before he had tied up Quatre head and feet. Placing his hand on Quatre's forehead, he changes into his likeness surprising him. "Thank you for the information and goodbye, Mr. Winner."

Sophia's in danger. He struggles with the wires. He gags Quatre before climbing the stares. Quatre closes the door running into Duo.

"Hey Quatre, did you find anything?"

"Sorry, I couldn't find anything."

"Don't beat yourself up about it, Quatre; well just have to try a different approach."

"I'll go talk to her." Duo looks at him strange a moment. Seeing he was serious, he opens the door for him.

"You know you can still back out." Quatre walks in. "Ok then, it's your funeral."

"Come on in; it's open." he walks in closing the door behind him. Duo sticks his head out of the shower. "Is there a problem, Trowa?"

"She's hidden them well."

"Quatre had the same problem. He's decided to go to the source."

"Is that wise?"

"That's what I asked him, but he thinks he can handle her. He thinks she'll listen to him." A screen comes down interrupting their conversation. Mischievous comes on screen catching his breath in the back as a weasel pop up.

"Enjoy the last few moments of your live. Let's see how well you can dodge lasers!" the screen changes showing Heero and Shimi on screen. They hug the wall as lasers start popping up around the room. Trowa grabs the doorknob. It turns rid hot burning his hand. "Now, now, no help from the peanut gallery." Mischievous rolls up his sleeves and jumps the weasel. There's a smoke cloud as the two duke it out. The shark come chomping between them nearly getting them both.

"Hey! Watch it you fool! You almost chomped me!" he screams as Heero and Shimi fall through a trap door.

"Are you ok, Trowa?" Duo asks sticking his head out of the shower once again. The door shuts on Duo's neck as Trowa examines his hand. "A little help." Trowa, with his good hand, tries to push the door back. Using his body, it opens wider for Duo and him to go inside. Turning off the hot water, he lets the cold water run on his hand. "Thanks."

"I thought you might enjoy the company."

"Thanks for the consideration, but I think we're next on the weasel's hit list." The bottom falls out of the shower as Mischievous manages to slip away as the shark and the weasel argue.

The computer screen turns on catching Quatre's attention. Mischievous looks at him through the screen curiously, and he then takes something out of his pocket. It turns into a bean saber. Quatre jumps slightly hearing the steady hum behind him. The wire suddenly slackens and slips off his hands. Ripping the gag off, he stands up in time to see the beam disappear into the floor.

"You're not Quatre or Niko," Sophia says reopening the blinds to see the sunset.

"What makes you say that?" he asks as a screen pops down in the room. They both look up as Mischievous blips on worried. Quatre scowls.

"Mischievous watch out!" the little fox nervously dodges the jaws of the giant shark. He freaks out and starts running. They play follow the leader running up and down, left and right, and diagonally across the screen. "Call off the shark." She watches a smirk form on his face.

"I'm surprised you figured it out so quickly. My name is Cobra." She holds her ground watching him carefully. "I'm afraid my shark and Jack the weasel are going to be too much for that little fox to handle." He slowly changes back into his original human cloaked form.

He's taller then Rashid... and that's tall. "I'm guessing that cloak is some kind of hologram projection."

"My ability to change into people is an acquirement not a hallucination, young lady. If you must know it's to hide my true self." He bends over holding his stomach as though sick. The cloak rips off as the back of his neck and head folds out like a fan. She gulps taking a few steps back. Its head was the size of the back of a Dodge truck. Taking a step to the side, his head follows the movement then lunges for it like a guided missile. She jumps out of the way, but he does a sharp turn catching her ankle in midair. Sophia snaps back like a whip. Cobra releases her letting her fall flat on her stomach.

She moans as pain shoots from her stomach and pushes her shaken body to her knees. Cobra's head returns to a normal snake head. He zips to her until they were face to face. She puts her head down so not to see his face. Losing interest he moves away. Is he waiting for something to happen? ...and how could he have more then one animal form? Oh no, Quatre. He had to have some kind of contact with him. She scoots toward the door, but her ankle made it difficult. Suddenly she gets pulled away from the door. Looking back, she sees Cobra had curled up and was pulling her back with the end of his tail. She tries to pull her foot free, but his grip was strong. She then sits up and rips it off with her bare hands. Her foot starts to swell around two quarter sized holes in her ankle. It continues to bleed as she rips off her shirt and ties it to her ankle. It stops bleeding soon after. He's waiting for the venom to spread, but I have to get to Quatre.

"What have you done with, Quatre!!" Quatre comes bursting in.

"Sophia, are you, ok?" she stands up happily at his generous question. Thank God he's ok. She steps forward, but Cobra gets in her face again ready to strike. She backs up stepping on his tail. He quickly wraps her up and squeezes her like an anaconda.

"Aahhh!!"

"Sophia!"

"No, don't," she says stopping him. "Get my laptop and download Mischievous. The house will reset erasing the other two viruses."

"But Sophia."

"JUST DO AS I SAY...!!!" She opens one eye as she continues to talk to him. Her voice softens, "I'm fine, silly." As Quatre works, Cobra starts to squeeze tighter. Ooh... Please hurry Quatre. Everything starts to go black. Suddenly the curls move away from her. Her eyes grow wide when her eyes start to focus again on the opened mouth of the snake ready to devour her whole.

Quatre slams Cobra in the head with the laptop as everything in the house shuts down. He was dazed long enough for Quatre to jump on the snakes back. He then tries to shake Quatre off. Shooting straight up, Cobra hits his head and then shoots for Quatre who surprisingly caught him by the mouth enabling Sophia time to make it to the door after picking up the laptop. Cobra pulls away from him and looks at him a moment before going after Sophia again.

"Ahh!!" He slams into her going through the door and down the laundry shoot. "Quatre!!"

"Sophia!" No!!" he calls down the laundry shoot. Without hesitation he fallows after her.

"No wonder we couldn't find this place. The trap doors are all in unusual places." Duo looks around and whistles. He looks at all the suits. Suddenly the house transforms into some kind of large air ship. It shoots straight up.

"Here you go Duo," Shimi says handing him some clothes as he gets his balance back.

"Thanks"

"No problem," she says with a smile, "There's a changing room over there and we should be landing in a few hours." Going in, he puts on the clothes.

"Not bad." A whoosh sound gets his attention as something fall out of the laundry shoot. Some clothes falls in the basket as he walks up to it. He jumps back as a giant cobra emerges from it. It stares at him a moment before exiting the basket. Crashing through the door, Duo stands there stunned. "Man, I'm never going to get use to this splicer thing." Another layer of clothes comes down followed by Quatre. "Are you ok, Quatre?" He knocks over the basket as Duo helps Quatre out.

"Where did he go?"

"Take a left."

"Thanks." He races in the direction Duo pointed in.

"I wonder why he's in a hurry." Duo was about to move the basket back in place when he saw a hand. Moving the clothes away, he sees Sophia unconscious. "Sophia." She doesn't respond. "Sophia, come on kid."

"What happened?" She opens her eyes. "Where's Quatre."

"He just went after the giant snake."

"What! And you didn't stop him!" She gets up; ignoring the pain, she runs out the door.

"Still not talking, Wufei," he doesn't look at Sally, but keeps walking down the hanger only to stop in front of a gundam.

How did you find me? He opens the cockpit and walks in.

"I followed you of course..." She watches him. "It's not hard to miss a tail that long." He looks startled by her answer and looks behind her. Sally playfully tugs on it until he blushes. "Why don't you apologize to her?"

"As soon as she learns to control her temper," he says walking away from her. he goes the lower platform to look at another suit.

"Well, you can't say I didn't try," she whispers to herself. A loud crash gets their attention. She quickly moves to the side letting the giant snake pass. Its thick tail knocks her over the side. She lands on something furry. The huge black wolf lands on the floor of the hanger just as Quatre does.

"Are you ok, Sally?"

"Yes, but where did this wolf come from?" Before he could answer Quatre spots Cobra heading for a mobile suit. He heads for Cobra, but the hanger door opens stopping the both of them. The escaping air turns into a suction as things go flying out of the hanger.

"NO!" Sophia screams seeing Quatre start to get sucked out along with the snake. She leaps down changing into her animal form to pick up speed only to change back grabbing his hand as the two slid out. Sophia and Quatre look like flags in the wind as she digs her claws into the edge of the hanger door.

"Sophia, you're alive."

"Of course I'm alive, silly... I don't go down that easily." She pulls him up enough to get his arms around her waist. He starts to blush suddenly. When Sophia changed into a fox she lost all her clothes. She sighs after the awkward moment. She grabs his shirt and pulls him up again until his hand touches the hanger.

"You have some explaining to do young lady." She starts to blush when Noin grabs her hand as Zecks pulls Quatre up into the hand of one of he white mobile suits. Noin helps her up.

"Ms. Noin."

"Hello Quatre, it's good to see you." Sophia stands up, but drops to her knees in pain. Quatre takes off his vest puts it on Sophia. The hatch closes. A dreamy feeling overwhelms her until she passes out. She could hear the faint voice of Quatre calling her name. She feels like a feather floating. The pain in her ankle seems far away as a warm hand grazes her face. She opens her eyes as a black wolf rests its head on her stomach.

"Wufei, is that you?" He lifts his head. I'm glad to see you're awake.

Thanks for staying with me."

I wasn't the only one. She pets him on the head. He gets up and leaves the room.

"How are you feeling Sophia?" She looks up at Quatre. She sits up somewhat in a daze. "You shouldn't be getting up, Sophia," but she ignores him. When he tries to stop her she surprises him with a tight hug. He feels her heart pounding out of her chest. "What's wrong, Sophia?"

"I haven't been that scared since..."

"It's ok; he's gone," he says wiping the tears from her eyes. "Now is time to rest yourself... and I'll be here with you." He kisses her on the forehead.

A taxi stops in front of the hotel. After paying the driver, a familiar shaggy haired teen climbs out. He goes inside just as a pink limo pulls up. Relena steps out and surveys her new surroundings before going in herself.