Chapter Two:
Elsewhere, on the Mars base was a man around the age of twenty-two or so. He looked up, blue eyes looking into soft eyes of a woman.
"Noin…" He said as he looked at her, mind drifting away from his work.
"Milliardo." She said as her eyes softened as she looked at him with love. "You've been working so hard." She said. "You should take a rest before you wear yourself out." She said as she walked over to him with a smile on her face.
She carried a glass of cold lemonade. She handed it to him and he smiled as he raised it up to his lips. He was about to drink the lemonade when he stopped.
His blue eyes widened and his mouth hung open as the glass dropped from his hand, shattering on the floor and spilling the glass and contents all over.
Noin rushed over, her short purple hair flying around her as she ran up to the man she found herself infatuated with over time.
Blue eyes glazed over and faded as he fell forward, collapsing into the arms of Noin who was sobbing, asking him what was wrong and checking his vitals while not knowing what to do.
"Milliardo!" She screamed as she called for a few attendants and workers to go and fetch a doctor as soon as they could.
"What's wrong with him, Sally?" Relena asked, eyes slightly red from crying. "Is he all right?" She asked, wanting to know that above anything else.
They had brought Heero as fast as they could to the infirmary where Sally was. After handing him over to the skilled doctor, they waited impatiently for news on the soldier.
Sally looked worn out. "To tell the truth," Relena saw the look in Sally's eyes and knew the news wasn't going to be good at all. "He's not in good condition."
"B-But," Relena stumbled slightly when she stared at the doctor. "He wasn't injured or anything…"
"No, he wasn't." Sally said as she looked down at the ground. "He's not internally or physically hurt at all."
"Then what's wrong with him?" Quatre questioned.
"Follow me." She said as she turned around and then walked back to where she had come from. It would be easier to show them than to tell them.
They walked through a door and stopped slightly when they saw Heero.
His eyes were closed and he had an assortment of machines attached to him to record his vitals. He was lying on a bed, not moving and he had wires connected to his head. He looked so peaceful.
Sally walked over to where his brainwaves were being monitored. "Currently," She began. "He's in a psychological coma."
"What?!" Relena and Quatre both shouted.
Relena's form quivered slightly as she took this in, eyes beginning to well with replenished tears once again as she stared at her perfect soldier. "H…" She tried to say. "How did this ha…happen?"
"To put it simply," Sally said, trying to answer her question. "Something is interfering with his brain signals."
Quatre blinked as he bit his lip, trying to concentrate. "Do you think that this may be a side effect of the Zero System?" He asked.
Sally looked at him and closed her eyes, rubbing her temples as she sighed. "It's not a side effect of the Zero System we're sure of that." She told him calmly though she was extremely concerned about the youth and the effect of this on the others. "Heero was able to use the system perfectly after all he had been through. It's not the side effects."
"You keep saying its not the side effects, then what is it?!" Relena looked angrily with tears in her eyes and hands clenched at her side at the doctor.
"I think it's the Zero System."
"You just said that it wasn't the system!" Relena said with exasperation. She bit her lip, opening her mouth to apologize but Sally got the hint.
"I never said that it wasn't the system." Sally stated calmly, cooling Relena down somewhat with the sound of her voice. "I said it wasn't the side effects."
"Are you suggesting that someone has managed to use the Zero System and effect Heero's brain patterns?" Quatre questioned with tinges of worry editable.
Sally looked down slightly at the soldier lying on the bed. "Yes." She replied softly.
TBC
