Disclaimer - I do not own any of the Gundam Wing characters, the only thing that is mine is the characters Allyson, Mayven and the plot. (If I forget to put this on my other chapters I apologize, I have a really bad memory for junk like this)

Rating - Safe Chapter (and by safe I don't count language because I don't have time to reread all the chapters to check for it)

Chapter 4 – The Double Faced Oz

Mayven sat in front of Heero's lap top hacking away into Oz's systems. She had to admit that she felt much better after changing and taking a quick shower, and she couldn't help but wish that she had done it sooner. The cloths were a perfect fit, with the exception that the jeans were a size to big, forcing her to wear a belt that she borrowed from Duo.

"Can you get in from here?" Wufei asked, looking over the girls shoulder to the screen. Mayven shrugged as she continued to type away at the system in front of her. Wufei soon got bored, Mayven not talking and headed over to where Trowa was sitting and grabbed a seat next to him, talking quietly between the two.

"Damn it," she said suddenly, flicking her hair back out of her face with a simple flick of the wrist, "they may have already deleted my accesses, but I doubt it," she flicked her hair back again with a soft sigh of aggravation before continuing her sentence, "Oz never does anything when they're suppose to." She added with a smirk.

"Lucky for us," Heero said as he sat down on the bed next to Relena, who blushed as his hand brushed against hers. She smiled, as did Heero, who broke eye contact immediate, "that gives us the advantage." Mayven paid no attention to what the Japanese boy was saying, still not marking the boy as trust worthy after they're encounter that morning.

"Damn it!" she cursed again as another fire wall came up, putting her once again another step behind Oz. Heero smirked, seeing the girl's frustration, but soon looked at Duo who had crossed the room in front of him, breaking his concentration on her and brought it back to Relena. He longed to just be able to kiss her without a second thought. To be able to just hold her as any other man would only dream of doing with the one he loved. But that would put her in danger, which was a chance that he refused to take. He would not put her in any danger just to please himself; maybe someday after this was all over for good he could have her to himself without a second thought.

"Better?" Duo's question broke into his thoughts violently, snapping him back to reality so suddenly that he almost let a gasp escape his lips. He shot his attention over to see Mayven nodding, her hair tied back into a low pony tail. Heero shook his head at how obvious Duo was being, but then smiled at the thought that he had find another to put his focus on instead of on Allyson.

Duo couldn't deny that he had feelings for the girl, he knew the minute she had spoken to him while they plummeted down to the earth's surface. Her face came up on his screen, hair in her eyes and a smirk on her face. At that moment he knew that there was something about her, something that he could fall for, something that reminded him of Allyson.

It took some time to realize what it was that she did that he loved, but as soon as she spoke he clued in. It was her sense of control, the way that she showed no fear in dying, and the thing he loved the most was the way that she held herself, so confidant. It was the exact way that Allyson had held herself. It broke his heart to think that this was the way he was going to die, but he soon remembered what Allyson had told him, "You'll find another to share you're love with." It was the last thing she had ever said to him, just before the mobile doll had exploded, taking her life along with the life of the pilot. He had smiled at Mayven when she had said that she would be the first to be known for destroying a Gundam Pilot, that she would be famous, even if she wasn't alive to enjoy it. He loved that smile that she held so well and couldn't help but laugh out loud when she said the words that will remain etched in his mind forever, "Take a good look at this face, because it's the last one you'll ever see!" He had done just that, before the sound of them hitting the ground over took all of his senses, then all he saw was blackness until he heard Heero say that he was now looking for a body, then he knew that he couldn't give up and that he had to live, even if it was just to prove her wrong. Then at the car, when he had lied to Heero and the others, saying that he couldn't be sure that she was the pilot that had tried to kill him, that she might be a civilian so that they take her too, saving the life that had tried to destroy his.

"I think I might have it," Mayven said, breaking the silence that had fallen over the room, "I know their next move!" She smiled at her accomplishment, but soon frowned at the thought of Oz finding out. If they found out that she had betrayed them it would all be over for her, and Oz always found a way to improve on the last time they tortured someone. She'd just have to take that chance, either way she was dead, at lest this way she could die knowing that she had done everything possible to stop it from happening.

"What is it?" Quatre asked, placing his glass of water on the desk before leaning over Mayven's shoulder at the encrypted message. Mayven sighed, realizing her mistake. She had thought to quickly, not paying attention to the message that had come up, no realizing that it was encrypted.

"Well, I've almost got it," she said, turning to Duo with a worried look in her eyes, "it's encrypted, sorry," she mumbled, closing her eyes as if she was awaiting a blow form someone. This sent anger running through Duo, but he pushed it back, knowing that it wasn't her fault, but Oz's.

"That's alright," he said, walking over, placing a hand on her shoulder. She opened her eyes slowly to meet with his violet ones that looked down on her sadly, "I told you that we wouldn't hurt you." He said with a smile, "and I meant that." Mayven smiled up at him, her eyes sighing in relief.

"But I don't know how to unscramble it," she said honestly, with a sigh, "I never had to before." Duo couldn't help but smirk, seeing her smile like that. What had Oz done to her? They had completely broken the spirit of a teenage girl without even a second thought. Duo sighed shaking his head at the thought of Oz laying a hand on her.

"Let me take a crack at it," Heero said standing, walking away form Relena, who had been secretly rubbing the base of his back which he couldn't deny that he loved, and headed over to the chair that Mayven had vacated. He sat down, cracking his knuckles before getting to work on the message in front of him.

Mayven stood off to the side, Duo standing between her and Heero, watching as the 18 year old Japanese pilot started to type away. The sound of the Heero hitting the keys echoed in Mayven's ears, a sound that she found vaguely familiar, a sound that she feared, but why? Absentmindedly, she took a step back, her mouth open and her eyes fixed on nothing, and they were just blank and distant. Taking another step back away from the noise, Mayven put her hands over her ears in an attempt to stop the sound from entering into her head but instead tripped over Trowa, who had been sitting on the floor behind her leaning against the bed, stumbling before she felt a hand on her back to steady her.

"Mayven?" She could barely hear the voice, her hands covering her ears so tightly, but soon recognized it as Quatre's. Closing her eyes securely, she moaned as Quatre's second question got Duo's attention, "are you alright?"

Duo turned around, seeing Mayven shrug out of the corner of his eyes, seeing her shack uncontrollably. He left Heero's side, who continued typing as he took a look at her from the corner of his eye, sighing lightly before turning his full attention back to the computer. Duo reached her side just as a tear fell down Mayven's scarred cheek, her soft moans of pain turning to soft sobs as Duo placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Make it stop!" she whispered as she opened her eyes to meet up with Duo's worried expression, "please, just make it stop." She begged as Duo took her hands away from her ears, holding them tightly in his own. His look of concern quickly turned to a look of confusion as the girl's sentence entered his head.

"Make what stop?" he asked gently, seeing her shack her head, trying to pull her hands free from his strapping grip so she could recover her ears.

"The…" she started, her voice turning into a cry, her eyes pleading with his as the others could only look on and watch, "the typing," she finished her sentence with a small cry, her hand's moving from his own hands to his chest, her grip on him suddenly violent, "Please!"

"Heero stop." Duo ordered in a gasp, which surprised even him, feeling her grip tighten on his shirt, pulling the material on his side to tight, causing him great pain.

Heero stopped immediately, wondering where Duo had just suddenly gotten such authority, turning to the group next to him in his chair, his eyes fixing on Duo and Mayven, "What is it?" he asked, not realizing that the sound of the typing was bringing Mayven back to the times Oz had decided to teach her a lesson on how to behave.

What none of them had yet come to realize was that Mayven had been tortured, yes, but she had been kept in a small room, tied down to a small chair for hours at a time with no food or water once she had gotten the courage to ask them about her biological family. This is where her sudden fear of being restrained had formed. This is also where she had learned that being in this room was horribly bad. This is where Oz would knock any freedom from their new 'followers', technically, this is where Oz brainwashed them with knives, electrical sticks and other new forms of punishments, knowing that once the follower was restrained, they couldn't fight back. The only sound that could be heard form this room, once the screaming, crying and sobbing had subsided, was the sound of someone typing, the sound coming from the room next door, where one of Oz's main technical rooms was located.

Now a question that has hit most of you by now is probably why this sound didn't affect her when she was typing? Well think about it, how many of you type for hours a day, by then the sound is neutral and you no longer hear it. This was part of it with Mayven, but the other half was that everyone in the room was talking to each other, and to her, this noise drowning out the sound of the typing but when Heero began to type, everyone became silent, giving him the silence that he would need to completely hack into Oz's systems, making the sound louder and more apparent.

But would Mayven realize why she's afraid of all these things? Would she remember exactly what went down in Oz's room? And if she did, could she over come it all to help the others? Would Oz find her, and kill her, or even worst, put her back into that room with their punishment officers? Would Duo let go of Allyson's memory long enough to take hold of the love that was set before him? Speaking of love, would Heero get his chance? Would Oz finally fall, leaving the colonies in peace for good? And would the Pilots stay together if they did defeat Oz? So many questions and so far not enough answers, but keep reading because the story has just begun. There are many twists that haven't even come to light yet, and there are many more problems that will arrive, leaving the Pilots with some tough decisions to make. But the one thing that I can promise is that all your question will be answered in this twisted story of how the Gundam's battle was far from over after the Endless Waltz

Well not much to say this time…..let's see, next chapter should be up by the end of next week and I hope that you are enjoying this. Oh ya, and if something isn't making sense then tell me and I will try and clear it up for ya.

You know the drill! lol