Newbreed

Chapter 2: The Scientists

The scientists arrived exactly an hour later. Duo woke Quatra up and everyone met in the basement. As soon as everyone had gathered there the scientists asked if they could see the information Cathryne had gathered. Quatra gave them the sheet of paper that contained the data and questioned them on what was wrong. They said it might not be anything but that Project: Soldier sound familiar.

"Oh no. I knew we should never have left them to their own devises. We knew what they were capable of and now they have finished the project. This is an absolute disaster." H said.

The other scientists started to read over the report while the others got impatient. The girls were managing to restrain themselves but it was all Wu-Fei could do to keep Duo and Quatra from attacking the scientists.

"What's wrong? We really need all of the information we can get on the Guild so if you know anything please tell us." Quatra tried pleading with them.

The scientists looked at each other and seemed to have a silent discussion. Finally they came to a conclusion and looked at the boys. They said that they hadn't meant to keep anything from them but that there was just too much information to tell all of it to them at once. They had just never thought it important enough to talk about. Everyone took seats and let the doctors tell their story.

"When we worked for the Guild we were assigned to do whatever experiment the Elders thought necessary for that week (which was usually torturing the Newbreed slaves for their amusement). But soon we grew tired of that and we all (there were five of us then) decided to do our own work. The Elders weren't happy about that at first but after they saw some results they gave us more freedom to do as we pleased. At first the five of us shared common goals and were able to work together well. But soon we had disagreements that kept getting bigger and bigger until it was obvious that we could no longer work together so we went our separate ways. The Guild was starting to get morally binding as well. They started with plans to capture and enslave the entire Newbreed population. So the three o us downloaded all the information we could and crashed all of their computers and left. We went into hiding for a while but when it became apparent that our colleagues were still helping the Guild we came out and started our own group to oppose them. We tried to find powerful Newbreeds because we knew the Guild would be building their army. That's our story but you probably want to know about the other scientists that we were helping.

"Well as Cathryne reported their names are J and S. They don't really have any moral problems with using the Newbreeds they have as lab rats. That's all they really see them as anyway. Though she reported J as insane I can assure you that he is mentally stable though his thought process is so much different that it may seem that he is. J is a genius he may use his genius for evil but you should not underestimate him he is very dangerous. He will do whatever he can to get his way and if her report is correct and he has been training a Newbreed it would be best if you tried your best to avoid him. S on the other hand is more reasonable though not by much. He is a lot more levelheaded and practical. J will be in control; he was always in control even back then. So both boys will be in terrible mental condition though I think S's boy, this Merc, might be a little better off, though that is still not saying much. Merian you should be very careful when you go to retrieve Cathryne. If she was in charge of taking care of these boys there's no telling what happened to her or what you might run into. Well that's about all we can tell you about them. Any questions?"

There weren't really any questions since everyone was trying to digest all of the information they had just received. Merian took her team upstairs to finish preparing for their mission. Quatra went to get some more sleep and Duo went back to the living room to finish his video game. The scientists were left to themselves; they decided to find a place to get some rest. Merian/Nataku's team left that night to try and find their missing team member.

Quatra woke up to Duo yelling. He ran down the stairs and into the living room to see what was wrong but when he got there all he saw was Duo jumping up and down yelling at the TV. He asked what was wrong but Duo never heard him. Turning the TV off to get his attention Quatra tried again.

"What's wrong Duo? Did something happen with Merian and the others?"

"Duo stopped staring at the blank screen and turned to look at Quatra.

"What? Oh, no nothing like that. It's just that I finally got to the end of the game and it froze. I haven't saved it in two days. This is horrible!"

Quatra burst out laughing. 'Duo can be so dramatic. Here I am worrying about our friends' lives and he's complaining about his video game.' Quatra was glad Duo was there with him. If he had to wait by himself he would have done something rash by now. Duo always knew when the tension was to high and just how to fix it.

"Don't worry. How about I help you get back to where you were?"

"Really! That's great thanks Quatra. It's going to take forever to get there."

Just as they were sitting down to play their vid phone started ringing. Quatra looked at Duo and stood up to answer it. That particular phone was only used in emergencies during a mission.

"Hello?" Quatra asked the blank screen.

"Quatra we need an immediate evacuation meet us in front of the training facility." Merian's voice rang out from the darkness like a knife and cut his heart.

He couldn't get a response from the phone so he told Duo to get the scientists together. He told Sally to meet him in the car. As soon as the car doors closed they were speeding off towards the training facility. On the ride there Quatra filled Sally in on Merian's phone call.

"I'm not sure if anyone is hurt so I had you come just in case."

"That's okay Quatra I would have insisted on coming anyway. I need to know that Cathryne is alright."

At that Quatra thought for a moment and then realized his mistake. 'Of course she would want to come. I forgot about them being a couple. I can't believe I forgot, true they kept their relationship secret at first but I should have remembered.' Sally saw the look on Quatra's face ad knew what had happened.

"It's alright Quatra we all need to know that they are alright."

Quatra smiled his thanks to sally and concentrated on driving. It took them ten minutes to get to the facility and then they had to find Merian. They had thought that there would be a fight going on to show them the way but everything was quiet and that scared them. Suddenly a bush spread from the side of the road all the way across effectively cutting them off. Quatra slammed on the breaks and told Sally to open the side door. As soon as they stopped people started to climb into the car. First it was Wu-Fei then Hilde and finally Merian. They all climbed into the very back and when no one else tried to get in Sally looked around outside.

"Where is Cathryne? You found her didn't you? Merian?" Sally questioned while trying to look outside.

"Yeah we found her but she wasn't alone. When we got to her she was locked to the wall in a room. When we got her down she said there were two other people that needed help. She said she wouldn't leave without them. We found them locked up around the corner but I'm not sure that they really wanted to leave."

Sally turned to look at her but then heard the tail end of a conversation s Cathryne moved out of the shadows closer to the car. (A/N when I say car I mean like SUV type thing. Something that can carry a lot of people.)

"Look I want you to come with me. I don't want to stay here anymore and the only way that I can leave and still take care of you is if you came with me. Please just get in the car."

Sally couldn't hear the rest of the conversation but shortly after that Cathryne and two other people climbed into the car. Sally couldn't help it; as soon as Cathryne was in the car she hugged her. The next minute she had her away and was trying to find any place she was hurt. Suddenly aware of what she was doing Sally asked the others if they were hurt anywhere. The others were all amused by her actions and said that they were fine. They thought it perfect vengeance that for once it was Cathryne that was being mothered over and worried about.

"Sally thanks for the attention but I'm fine really. I want you and Quatra to look over those two though. They were in rough shape when I first saw them. I know they look okay now but I would really appreciate it if you would check. Oh thank you so much!"

Sally smiled at Cathryne's exuberance but was worried that she had said Quatra should look too. Usually Sally took care of all the wounds since she had healing powers but Quatra had to help sometimes if there was a psychological problem. She looked at the two boys who were sitting in the back.

"Well I can do a little bit of healing now if there is anything serious and we can have you lay down in the living room to have a better look when we get home. Which one of you first."

It didn't look like either boy was going to let her touch them; in fact one of them seemed to be growling at her. One boy was a couple of inches taller then the other, he had light brown hair that hung down to cover one of his emerald green eyes. His face didn't show anything but he did look at Cathryne for what seemed like an answer. The other boy was of Asian decent probably Japanese with chocolate brown hair and cold cobalt blue eyes and what seemed like no facial expressions. Looking into his eyes made her shiver at the emptiness. The shorter boy was the one that had growled at her. She looked back to Cathryne and saw her nodding to the taller boy.

"You can go ahead and heal Trowa if you want. He's the tall one with the funny hair. Giggle no offense Trowa but it is an interesting hairstyle. Oh, and the other one is named Heero, don't mind him he's always like that."

Cathryne went on to introduce everyone while Sally reached towards Trowa to try and heal him. She got her power ready to use when the growling she had heard earlier got louder and more threatening. She looked up and saw the smaller boy starring at her with a mean look on his face. She drew back quickly and saw Trowa look at the smaller boy. She didn't know what happened but the growling suddenly stopped and Heero looked away from her to Trowa. Something seemed to pass between them when Trowa told her that it was all right. Heero still watched her but he didn't make another sound. She tried putting her hands on Trowa's face and let her power flow her into him. She could fell all of the pain he was feeling at the moment and was surprised by the amount of it. She could feel that he bundled it up and put it in a corner of his mind to ignore. She suddenly felt something strange. Sally's eyes rolled up in her head and she passed out in the seat. She convulsed a few times getting Cathryne's attention but was still after that. Cathryne grabbed her and tried to shake he awake. When she didn't wake up Cathryne tried talking to Trowa.

"What happened?"

"She couldn't handle what she felt." Was Trowa's only reply.

TBC…Thanks for reading sorry for leaving it like this more will come soon though promise. Although I don't think the chapters will get any longer. Sorry for that too. Please review;)