The Secret Soldier
Chapter Five: Flowers III (Part One)
By: Saikyou
AN
Uh, yea, long break; kill me later if you wish. Its summer, I'm bored, so I'm typing. Good thing, right? Anyway, this will hopefully be a longer chapter than normal to make it up for the time I haven't updated.
So, please sit back and enjoy the seriousness, weirdness and just plain stupidness that might and probably occur in this chapter (don't worry, there's bound to be something you'll find amusing), and just as a side note, reviews are very much so appreciated!
On a side not, due to this chapter which I've made the presumption of it coming out at twenty or so pages, I have split up into two parts, the second part will be coming out in a day or two.
Disclaimer: As much as I would love to, I do not own the G-Boys or anything to do with the series except this 'lovely' fan fiction and my character (and Gundam for that matter).
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"Because Mr. Maxwell, out of the six new students, you scored the lowest on that quiz from the other day, where as Miss. Marisha-Ten scored the same mark as Quatre for second highest in the class." Miss. Sears explained calmly as she began to tidy up her things.
"Who scored the highest Ma'am?" a guy in the middle of the class asked.
"I was actually surprised to find it was one of the new students, it was actually Wufei, he had quite some answers." She said with a smile on her face. "And because I want this project for next week Tuesday, you all are dismissed now so you can start to work on it. Good day." And with that she walked right out of the classroom.
"Peachy, real peachy…" Duo grumbled out slowly.
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1:50pmDormBuilding B, Second Floor
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"I can't believe I'm stuck working with you…" he sighed slowly as he slowly slid his feet across the carpeted floor of the dorm room.
"The feeling is mutual Maxwell." was the annoyed reply before there was a click of a key unlocking a door. "Look. Let's just go to the library in half an hour to make it look as though we're actually doing the project together. All you'll be doing is studying that stuff while I actually work on the project and make sure we don't fail." were the last words Rose spoke before she disappeared into her room and closed the door behind her.
"My favourite hobby, studying the meaning of flowers." Duo muttered sarcastically as he continued to head towards his room.
"And what would you be studying flowers for Duo?" a calm male voice spoke from behind the braided brunette. Turning around quickly, he found Trowa and Wufei standing behind him, waiting for an answer.
"Er… Women like flowers so I thought that if I learnt meanings of them I could send the correct flowers to them." he blurted out in less than fifteen seconds, so it was all slurred together, but surprisingly enough, his comrades understood him clearly as if he were talking one word per minute.
"I see…" Trowa nodded as he continued to his room, not exactly sure what was expected, he wasn't going to doubt Duo, it was his own time to spend doing what he liked so it really wasn't his worry.
"Every time you tell me these things Maxwell, I get more of the feeling your gay." Wufei said bluntly while staring at Duo disbelievingly. There was no way that 'lazy ass' Maxwell was doing something like that, it wasn't his style or his thing, and since when did he chase after woman? From what he knew, all Maxwell should have been worrying about was staying alive and doing his missions to stop that weak organization from destroying any more.
Then again, he, Wufei, had never understood the sugar-junky with whom he spoke with, always cheerful and happy, one could have been fooled into thinking he was just a normal person, even if he were found in a battle field covered in blood. But once that boy stepped into his Gundam, Deathscythe, number 02 out of the five, he became what he called himself in nickname. Shingami.
"God dammit 'Fei, I'm not gay!" the long haired brunette shouted at his own defence out of annoyance, but in doing so, just drawing more attention to themselves by the one or two people who were passing by the building outside and heard the comment from the open windows. It was not the first time Duo had been called gay by Wufei, and was most likely not that last. And at the point in time, it was really starting to tick him off.
"You could fool any one you were a female Maxwell, with your long hair and the fact your just look like a girl is another thing." Silence fell between the two as Wufei continued to stare at Duo in his disbelieving manner, and Duo stared back in annoyance. But his annoyance faded away as an idea popped into his head.
"Oh yea, but I look sexy, don't I?" the comment was coming right at Wufei and slapped him in the face. "Don't deny 'Fei, I look real great." There was a grin on his face now, for once he had gotten Wufei back at his own little game, but now, as to ensure to keep his head attached to his body and all other limbs, body parts and organs functional, he would run. Yes, the great Duo 'Shingami' Maxwell would run, and very fast would he run, or he would most defiantly find himself dead in a bloody pulp in the middle of the floor.
So he did so, and just as he predicted, a certain word came flying after him, along with the person shouting it. And of course, that word is a word that Duo found amusing when spoken out of rage by that person, and that word is…
"INJUST!"
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2:43pm, School Library
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"A ten to fifteen page essay on the current situation on Earth, huh?" she mused as she looked over a sheet of selections she had been given to choose from for the history project. "Easy enough." Calmly typing something into her laptop from where she sat in the schools large library, her purple-blue eyes caught hold of Heero quickly and quietly moving towards Duo. Reaching the braided brunette, she watched his lips whisper in the ear of his fellow pilot before moving speedily off and out of the library.
Closing the book in front of him and fixing up the papers that lay scattered about on the table in front of him, Duo stood up and paced over to her where he bent his knees when he was next to her and lent on the table.
"Let me guess…" Rose said slowly as she scratched her chin, she had clearly read what Heero had said to him by reading his lips, but she was still going to be childish about it just for fun. "You have to go on a mission and you don't have a choice to go or not because it's a mandatory and your stealth is needed blah blah blah, right?"
"Just about that, but it's not my stealth that's needed, everyone has gotten stuck with a mission tonight surprisingly, and I'm his last choice, but of course, I'm the best choice for this sort of situation seeing as I'm best in night combat if I do say so myself." Duo whispered back as to not draw attention to themselves or get kicked out of the library by the cranky old librarian who got at any kid who made anything from coughing to writing too noisily. That old hag seriously needed to get out of this school and go on a long, long holiday.
"What's the missions' objective, just asking out of curiosity and also so I can update that mission log Kiyoi has made on the missions you guys have done over time." Glancing up from her computer, Rose's eyes caught hold of the crazy librarian who was making her normal hourly rounds to make sure the students weren't doing anything they weren't supposed to be doing. "So simply Duo, for the project," she began to say getting the male crouched beside her confused before he saw her eyes motion towards the old lady walking by the table behind them. "I was thinking of researching a few things on the colonies to go along with what we're going to research on the current happenings on Earth between Oz and the Gundams. What do you think?" her eyes glanced over to the woman who was now standing behind Duo, watching Rose's laptop screen and listening to what she was saying.
"I think it sounds pretty good to me." He commented, playing along with Rose. "I could go into town and ask people what they think about the current situation happening on Earth and go pick up the newspaper and such." Pausing for a moment, she snapped his fingers together as if he had just remembered something valuable. "I almost forgot that I have that… Friend who works for Oz as one of their MS Pilots, I think he told me he pilots a Leo, so maybe I could get him to give me some information on Oz."
"Excellent idea Duo!" acting happy about it her eyes sneakily glanced up to find the librarian had moved away and out of hearing range.
"Okay, it's clear, so what's the mission about?"
"The place we have to go is two hours drive away, it would probably be less for Heero if I wasn't going along because he could change his Gundam into that plane thing, but he needs me so we have to drive with the Gundams. The mission is an infiltration and information retrieval, so basically, he'll have to sneak in, but there's the chance of him having to retreat and if that happens, he might find himself face to face with a bunch of Leo's without his Gundam, so that's what I'm around for, to get rid of any Leo's that appear while he's inside or maybe when we get there, they might be patrolling then I'll act as a diversion." Shrugging a bit, the purple haired female nodded her head as she looked over at the things Duo was carrying. "We're leaving in roughly an hour and a half."
"I see, well you don't have to worry about the project, I'll take care of it while you're away most likely, but when you get back from the mission, get to my room when you can so we can try to get into the floppy disk again." Turning back to face her laptop, Rose continued what she was doing as Duo nodded and stood up properly before leaving the library to change clothes and head off for his mission.
The moment Duo exited the library; Rose closed her laptop and also collected the things around her and placed them on top of her now closed portable computer.
"Well… It seems that my job starts now, and if I want to do it, I'll need to take off now…" standing up calmly as to make sure her chair didn't screech across the marble floor as she got up. Picking up her things with one hand, she pushed her chair back in and then carefully began to weave her away, but unaware to her, a pair of eyes covered by glasses carefully watched her from where they stood by a book shelf with a book in hand.
"Judging by the amount of time spent between Maxwell and that onna talking after Yuy informed Maxwell of the mission, Maxwell spoke to her more about what he was really doing rather than a cover up…" closing the book while placing it back onto the shelf while not watching, but instead watching Rose exit the library, he removed his hand from the bookshelf and nodded ever so slightly. "So the onna knows." The Chinese male spoke to himself before moving towards one of the exits as well to leave the library.
A smirk slowly appeared on his lips as a though ran through his head.
"Yuy is going to kill Maxwell…"
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3:00pm, Dorm Room B, Second Floor, Rose's Room
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Placing her things back into her room, she picked up a backpack, that was being stored in a small closet by the door, she had used when she was enrolled into the school to carry her laptop. Walking over to her closet, she opened it and ran her hand along the contents of shirts, pants, hoodies and suits inside until she grabbed hold of a black hoodie a shoved it into her bag. Placing the backpack down onto the bed behind her, she went onto the balls of her feet and reached up to the shelf at the top of the closet. Grabbing the long rectangular black box with both hands, she pulled it out and brought it down onto the end of her bed carefully and then glanced around quickly as if checking to see if anyone was watching her. Flicking the latches of the case open she raised the lid and pushed it back onto her bed, revealing at least three different guns, all appearing to be brand new and not used before. Her hand took up one of the black pistols as she examined it before letting out a low sigh.
"It's not the greatest model, but it'll do during this stage of my plan…" checking the bullets in the gun, she was pleased to know they were already filled, which would save her some time rather than having to fill them. "Well, at least it's an older model than the ones they have today, they look rather stupid, but this, it looks as though it actually hold some power behind it." Spinning the weapon around her finger, she held it out in front of her and looked as though she was prepared to shoot, but lower it and tossed it into her bag.
That was when she looked down at herself only to realise that she was still wearing one of the suits she had picked up the other day before her meeting with Duo as 'Kiyoi'. Calmly moving back towards the closet, she removed a pair of dark blue carpenter jeans and a black tank top with mesh sleeves attached to them. Not caring for her surroundings, the purple haired female began to change on the spot, seeing as it was her room, what was her worry? No one else was here or watching, or so she hopped. Ignoring her childish thoughts, she picked up her bag and zipped it up before slinging it over her shoulder as she headed to the door. Grabbing a black cell phone with purple buttons and a rose on the back of it and the keys which lay beside them, she slipped a pair of black skateboard shoes on while shoving the cell phone and keys into her pocket and then slipping a pair of shades on to the top of her head. Placing her hand onto the door handle, she turned it and pulled the door open and glanced about the hallway quickly to find the coast clear. Stepping out onto the white hallway floor, she turned around and closed her door, retrieving her keys from her pocket, she locked it and then headed towards the end of the hallway which wasn't too far down and then into the emergency exit stairway.
Scaling down the stairs quickly and silently, she exited out the back door like she had done a few times before and moved along the cement pathway while putting her keys into her left pocket. Taking her cell phone out of her right pocket, she pressed a button and allowed it to turn on. This is one thing she loved about being a mechanic, something that came very handy when she was being lazy or had to do something quickly.
"Hey DA, time to wake up, we got a mission." Rose spoke into the phone while glancing up to check where she was going. Looking back down to the cell phone screen, she couldn't help but smirk after reading the text that had appeared. "Yes, I know I shouldn't have left you as a decoy for those soldiers and I'm sorry about that, that's why I decided that I'm actually going to use you for travel this time rather than driving. You see DA, not only are you faster, but better company and much more comfortable. Also, you'll get to be in control as long as we get there in about two hours." Chuckling lightly before realising that there were people approaching her, she stopped her laughter as a smirk appeared on her face. She recognized the two from her technology class; they loved to seem to boast about how they were the best, men, always so full of themselves and their ego's… "DA," the girl in jeans spoke loud enough for the two males in front of her to hear her. "Please arrange a call to my mother for me right now through a secure line please." Her purple-blue eyes glanced up and saw the males looking at her as though she was talking to herself, but, they hadn't seen it all yet. Rather… Heard it.
"Yes Miss. Rose, preparing request to internationally call Mrs. Marisha-Ten through a private line. Searching… … Private line found, dialling number 854-296-0071, connecting through satellite number three." There was a pause in the female voice as Rose passed the two males who just seemed to be staring at her in shock. Neither of them had finished creating the AI system for the current Tech assignment, and they had another three weeks out of the ten given weeks to complete it. But the girl who had just arrived, the only girl in class they might add, who had just received the assignment the day before had finished it in one day?
"Connection found Miss. Rose, please be prepared to connect in five seconds." Her cell phone spoke to her as she nodded unconsciously.
"Thanks DA," raising the phone to her ear, she looked at the two onlookers. "Can I help you boys?" they quickly shook their heads before hurrying off, leaving Rose to snigger to herself as her phone connected.
"Hello, Sally Po speaking." Sally's voice reached Rose's ear and she stopped her laughing and cleared her throat.
"Good afternoon Sally, it's Rose, I'm contacting you about-" but she was cut off suddenly.
"What are you thinking? This like isn't secure, if anyone one-" now it was Sally's turn to be cut off by Rose 'tutting' like a mother.
"Jeeze Sally, do you think I'm still that immature about things like this now? Seriously, I even created a whole system connected to DA that will automatically find a secure and private line as long as I ask of it, so you don't have to worry about when I'm calling." Continuing her stroll along the path, she held the cell phone with the one phone while the other held her backpack onto her shoulder rather than putting both straps on. "As I was saying, I'm requesting that you set off a full evacuation of the base at the location DA will send you in a bit. Make them take all the MS's and every large weapon out of the base under the excuse of bomb threat inside of the base."
"Wow, you surprise me once more. What kind of things did those people teach you anyway?" the older of the two women joked, chuckling lightly herself but it died down once she realised the one whom she was speaking with was laughing along with her. "Rose...?"
"Another time Sally, another time…" the female pilot spoke with a sigh as she shook her head as bit as she continued to move towards her destination, which seemed to be a small deserted wooden dock with a few miniature speed boats tied up to it. "Anyway, just to inform you, I expect to see you there in two and a half hours with the base cleared out, bye Sally." And with that she hung up on her cell phone as she walked onto the wooden walkway and shoved it back into her pocket. Looking around her like she had been doing all afternoon, she turned to the far side of the dock so that her back was facing the school. "Shingami." Rose spoke out in a command like manner, a moment passed before the water in front of her rippled slightly as a black object submerged from the dark blue icy water. One everything stilled, she glanced around speedily once more before looking back at the black metal object which was in front of her in the water. "Mitsukai." She didn't speak as roughly this time, but it was still in an order like form as something began to hiss and the black object opened up, revealing the cockpit to something. Tossing the back pack in, she quickly followed and sat down in the seat and the door to the cockpit automatically closed. Screens and different coloured buttons began to flicker to life as she placed her bag in the area behind her chair and then looked forwards once more, shifting in her seat slightly to get comfortable, and then placing the chest straps on to hold her safely in place.
Almost instantly, the feeling of motion ran through her body as she snorted a bit in disapproval.
"I'm not in here for even five minutes and you're already off, eager are we?" crossing her arms, she watched the response pop up on the screen in dark purple writing.
'How would you feel being left underwater, not being able to move.' A rowdy laughter erupted from Rose as she wiped away a tear from her eye while shaking her head.
"Fair enough DA, fair enough, but remember, you've got two hours, but you have to get me there." Placing her hands behind her head, she closed her eyes with the intention to sleep. "And when I say 'there' I mean the Chunlan Oz Military Base, not the Moon Base."
'Yes Ma'am.' appeared on the screen as they continued to move underwater in the control of DA itself.
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4:45pm, Deserted Gas Station one mile out from town.
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"You're late." Heero spoke from where he leant against one of the few standing and remaining pillars of the run down building.
"Well, that's the sort of thing that happens when someone doesn't tell you where you're supposed to meet up before heading off on the mission, He-chan." Duo calmly responded as he stayed in the driver seat of the truck with the extra large cargo on the back, which of course was covered by a grey sheet. "Anyway, let's get a move on, the quicker we get this done, the better."
"Hn." The darker haired brunette gave Duo a quick glare before walking over to his truck and climbing into the drivers' seat. Turning the engine on, it rumbled loudly before he placed his foot onto the accelerator and it began to move forwards. Steering the large vehicle off of the dirt and onto the road, he sped up and kept his eyes on the area in front of him as to make sure not to cause an accident with the precious load on the back which he took such good care of. Glancing in the rear view mirror, his eyes landed on the braided baka who was viciously swaying from side to side in his seat, his mouth moving along with the music he knew was being played. A person would have thought an idiot like him wouldn't have anything to do with the Gundams, but then again, that's what gave them the best edge, because no one expected them to be teenagers.
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5:38 pm, area outside the Chunlan Oz Military Base
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"Well, all seems well…" the purpled haired female spoke softly to herself as she saw the last few MS suits heading out of the base slowly by boarding onto one of their giant transport airships. "Soldiers are gone, so are the MS's, and anything with a potential of hurting those two idiots… Well, I really shouldn't call Yuy an idiot, because he's not really one, Maxwell on the other hand is a completely different level of stupidness." Sighing lightly as her shoulders relaxed, she stood up from her position where she was hidden behind a tree and headed further back away from the base. There, the black object which she had traveled in cam into view. A somewhat large, but sleek, black jet, the cockpit wide open, climbing up it slowly and with ease, she leant into the cockpit of the jet and pulled out the backpack she had tossed in earlier. Unzipping it, she pulled out the black hoodie and slipped it on over her purple tank top and lowered the hood so it hung loosely behind her. Picking up the last item in the bag, she spun it on her finger once more before placing it into her left pocket on her jeans and tossing the bag back inside of the cockpit
"The only thing left to do is complete their mission."
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7:00 pm, Chunlan Oz Military Base
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He continued to jog forwards, the machine gun he had stolen from the first soldier he had stumbled upon was firmly held in his hand. His eyes glanced backwards for roughly the tenth time, but there was no one there. It was odd, the base should have been packed with enemies, but so far the only one encountered was the man out by the back where he had snuck in. Of course, the man was now hidden among some bushes with a knife he had brought along with him for some odd reason, sticking out from the middle-left of his chest, no longer apart of the living world.
Something was defiantly wrong; anyone from that school they had been enrolled into could have told you that. What was stranger was that he could have sword that someone was following him, but not once could he find them. The only people who should be able to get away from him undetected would have been Trowa and that braided idiot, Duo.
Turning the corner in the seemingly never-ending hallway, his Persian blue eyes caught hold of his gaol, the control room of the god forsaken maze. Calmly typing in the code he had found while waiting for Duo to arrive at the set meeting point, the doors slid open and on natural reaction, he raised the machine gun only to lower it slightly. There was only one person in the room to his surprise, even though his face didn't show it, sitting in the chair in front of the main computer, where he was supposed to be, was a hooded figure that hadn't seemed to notice his presence.
"Jeeze, I was wondering when you would get here." The hooded person spoke as the seat spun around, revealing a woman wearing a black hoodie and a pair of baggy dark blue jeans. Their eyes covered by a pair of shades and a pleasant smirk on their lips, as if they had been expecting him for a week.
"Who are you?" he demanded rather than asking, raising his gun once again, the smirk on the persons face just grew into a grin as they continued not to answer him. Who ever it was, they seemed to know how to get on his nerves. His eyes watched them turn around on the chair so they were once more facing the computer. Yes, they knew very well how to annoy him, so taking a few careful steps forwards, his grip on the trigger tightened. "Answer." But once again, the threat was ignored, so it wasn't his problem, this person was not part of his 'gang' as Duo referred to them now and again. His finger lowered down on the trigger, but suddenly raised up when he felt something whiz past his face, and then a line of stinging on his cheek appeared.
"Now now Mr. Heero Yuy, no need to do anything rash, is there?" fully facing him as they stood up, their raised arm which held the black pistol lowered and placed the weapon back into one of the many large pockets of their baggy jeans. Twisting their body ever so slightly, the arm which hadn't held the black weapon moments ago picked up something from the small desk area by the chair and then they turned back. His eyes saw a CD case while the other went into the pocket of their hoodie. "You're probably still wondering who I am, aren't you..?"
"…" she received a look which told her everything, a small chuckled came from their throat as her head shook a bit.
"Yes Yuy, I know you would love to kill right now, but I'm afraid you can't. I suggest you speak to Mr. Maxwell about me, and I'm sure he'll willingly tell you, as long as you shove that weapon in his face, and as a last though, you'll need this." Tossing the CD case over to Heero, he realised the grip on the machine gun with one hand as it dropped forwards a bit, still staying up due to the strap on his shoulder, and he caught the case. Looking at is suspiciously before looking back at the mystery person, he glared at them, earning himself another chuckle. "There's nothing wrong with it, don't worry." Waving a hand up and down, Heero continued to glare at them, not believing anything he was being told, they just sighed and shook their head. "Fine, don't believe me." But a few seconds after the words were heard by the soldier, an explosion pounded into the control room, making him raise his head.
A communication lick popped up as they leant back and hit a button as to accept it, almost instantly, a square screen appeared in the corner of the larger screen with a video image of an annoyed looking Duo in it.
"Heero, if you wouldn't mind, could you hurry it up buddy. I donno what happened, but all of a sudden these guys appeared right after I got a message from Q telling me that he was just informed by someone that there was a huge amount of MS's heading over here, and whaddya' know, they all just suddenly appeared." The braided pilot explained in a hurry and in an uneasy tone as he continued to fight in his Gundam, a small bit of blood trickling down the side of his face.
"He'll be right out Duo, but it's good to see you've made a full recovery from that other night." Another smirk appeared on their lips when Duo's violet eyes shot towards the screen and he fell silent.
"Kiyoi… What the hell are you doing here, where's Heero?" he demanded, earning himself, just as Heero did, a chuckle of pure amusement.
"Oh you needn't worry my dear boy, he's right here with me of course." A faint curse came from the speakers, followed by yet another loud explosion, this time louder due to the connection right into Dethscythe. "Well Yuy, what the hell are you waiting for?" Kiyoi snapped at him harshly, gaining the gaze of the Persian blue eyes once more. "Take your data and get the fuck out, your partner needs your help." Raising her arm, she pointed directly at the door and waited for him to make a move, she watched him watching her for a bit longer before making a hurried turn on the ball of his left foot and running off, still holding the machine gun and the newly required CD. "Maxwell, a word of warning. That Marisha-Ten girl… She isn't who she really seems to be."
"What-" but the connection was instantly cut off the moment she pulled her gun from her pocket and shot the computer three times in main areas, destroying circuits and microchips.
"Must you be so destruction? Another female voice spoke up in an amused, but still slightly annoyed manner as the girl in the hoodie tilted her head towards the shadows, apparently ignoring what she said.
"Mm… What I speak is true though, isn't it Sally?" Sally pushed up from the shadows, revealing herself as she shrugged a bit and walked over to the girl, her arms crossed over her chest.
"So, you're still going to go along with that plan of yours huh?" the light haired brunette said as she leant down onto the chair Rose had currently be occupying while working on the computer, or pretending to at least.
"But of course!" she seemed enthusiastic about the idea when the plan she had created was brought up. "There's no other way I would do it, it's the best, and most likely the easiest, don't you agree?"
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8:48 pmSchoolDormBuilding B, Second Floor
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"Duo." The braided brunette froze on the spot like an animal in the spot light of a vehicle on a highway, the exact same person that he was trying to avoid by sneaking about the hallways had just caught him so very easily. Some master of stealth he was, eh?
"Heero, man! Imagine seeing you here!" Duo exclaimed in an uneasy manner which Heero picked up almost right away, especially after seeing Duo fiddle with the end of his braid, which he only did when he was nervous about something. "I would really love to stay and chat, but I gotta go and work on that project with Rose," by that time, he had turned around to face Heero, but was sliding backwards on his feet ever so slightly it was hardly noticeable. "And you should know how bad that girls temper is, you wouldn't want to find me dead tomorrow morning because she got so pissed off at me and killed me while I sleep, do you?" the American joked around, a cheesy grin plastered over his face as a mask as he continued to swivel backwards bit by bit.
"You're forgetting the real reason why we enrolled into this school in the first place. The real mission which you have seemingly forgotten." Heero bluntly spoke to the teenager in front of him who gave him a childish pout at being spoken to like a child. "She can wait, this is more important, now tell me the woman that I met in the base was, why she knew us and how she knew about our mission." But the moment the perfect soldier stopped speaking, the sound of the word 'Injust!' rang through the halls, drawing the attention of all the students in the hallways, and the students passing the building who heard the shout coming out of the windows. So, in the moment that Heero was distracted, Duo took off, using the situation and Wufei's loud shout of anger (it was obviously Wufei, who else shouts 'Injust' that loudly?) as his advantage to get away from the situation he didn't want to deal with and would sort out later. Much later when he had no choice that is.
Practically sprinting down the hallways, Duo suddenly skidded to a halt, falling over in doing so thanks to the sudden stop but stood up fast enough for anyone to realise he actually fell over, and looked at the familiar door which belonged to a certain female who was somewhat a friend. Though, there was something different this time, on the door, there was a white board hanging on it, and on this white board, there was a message, most likely directed to anyone who was looking for her, but mostly for him when he got back, it was just a feeling.
'Gone out on a coffee run for Quatre, Trowa, Wufei and myself, also to pick up a few groceries for my fridge (milk, coke, bread, butter, etc…). I should be back in about half an hour, leave a message on here, slip a note under my door or just wait for me.
-Rose'
"I should have known…" his hand ran down his face while shaking his head a bit, laughing under his breath. "I had it coming, ditch her and she'll do it right back to 'ya. Of course, she wouldn't have known when we were coming back, so maybe it was just fluke." Shrugging a bit before turning to the left and walking down the hall, he sighed a bit. "And no I'll have no choice but to face Heero, what joy…" the sarcasm dripped from his mouth like venom as he headed to his room to hopefully hide from the ever watchful and all knowing persian blue eyed male, he would have entered if everything hadn't gone black. At first, the pilot thought someone had hit him over the head with something, but it didn't make sense because his head wasn't hurting nor did he have a splitting headache.
"What on earth is going on here?" the brunette questioned to himself before he suddenly found himself raising his hands as to block the sudden intrusion of the light from a flash light beaming into his eyes.
"Duo, is that you?" Quatre's voice asked from behind the light as it was lowered a bit, apparently it was the Arabian who was holding the flash light, or it wouldn't have been lowered as to save his eyes.
"The one and only." The light bounced up and down as it got closer and Quatre came into view, close behind him was Trowa so Duo presumed that the two had been in Q's room working on the project for that crazy History Teacher woman.
"See Yuy, I would you Winner, Barton and the braided baka would be here, where else would they be?" Wufei spoke as another flash light, not as large as the one Quatre was holding, shone at Duo's face one more before moving over to Quatre and Trowa and then moving back onto Duo and finally to the ground.
"Hn."
"If we're all together, that means it was someone else who pulled the power for the electricity to the school." The normally silent pilot spoke up for once, speaking what others were thinking while Duo rubbed his eyes to get the little colourful spots he could see from the flash lights out of his vision. Finally looking up, the first thing Duo noticed made her let a snort out of his mouth, drawing the attention of his friends onto him.
"Hey 'Fei, why are you, of all people, holding flowers?" in the hand of the Chinese male, there were three flowers, the first one was a tropical looking white flower, the second was very small and white, but there were many of them, and finally, the third was a single yellow flower, both of which appeared to have been found in the wild, and of course they made him remember which ending in Wufei sending a glare at Duo.
"Someone gave me these things to me and told me to give it to you Maxwell." The two white and yellow flowers were suddenly tossed onto the ground at Duo's feet as Wufei snapped out his response in pure and utter annoyance, and all the purple eyed pilot did was stare at them, as though he was trying to remember something important.
"The first thing we should be doing is turning the power back on. Quatre, because you know the layout of the school the best because of those blue prints of the school you received, you should know the whereabouts of the main electricity box is on the school grounds, so you'll take care of that." Heero spoke, taking control of the situation which had apparently run through his head and was already calculated out to the best scenario that would work the best for the time.
"Understood." The blond nodded but didn't make any motion to leave right away as to heard what the others were going to be doing first incase someone was going to be going in the same direction as him so they would go together in the beginning.
"Next, we will need to find out who did this and why, Trowa." The talking came to a halt as the persian blue and green eyes met with each other as if they were mentally speaking to each other, it ended with Trowa nodding in an understanding way saying he accepted his job. "Wufei, you'll be accompanying me to go check on Relena to make sure that she is safe. Duo, you'll make sure all of the students in this building and the next are told it is only a black out, nothing more, nothing less, also make sure no one is injured and if they are, get them to the school nurse."
"Fine." Wufei shrugged not really caring as long as he wasn't paired up to go anywhere with Maxwell, so he began to move away, only to stop again when he didn't head the expected complaint from Duo about how he got the 'crappy job' again.
"Duo, respond." Heero repeated, not really caring why he hadn't received an answer the first time.
"We have to get everyone out of here." The brunette finally spoke, gaining the confused attention and looks of his comrades, Wufei just staring at him as if he were an idiot. "I'm serious, we have to-"
"It's only a power outage Maxwell, there's nothing dangerous or life threatening for the students in this building, so just calm down." The only black haired male in the group spoke without care as he continued to move on his way with Heero right behind him, but now with his gun in hand, checking and preparing it as if he knew something was going to happen, as the light from his flash light began to disappear further down the dark hallway.
"Q, T, you two have got to believe me." He said almost desperately while turning to the other two, Quatre just glanced over at Trowa, who seemed to not to believe the small American himself, and then back at Duo.
"Wufei's right Duo," the Arabian said as he walked up to Duo and patted him on the shoulder. "It's only a blackout, probably just a student playing a prank or a malfunction somewhere along the line, there's nothing to fret about." Giving him a reassuring smile, Quatre also began to move down the hallway with Trowa in tow as to head out to carry out what they had been told to do by Heero. Then once more, Duo was left alone in the darkness, just as it had been before they others had found him.
Kneeling down to pick up the flowers on the ground, he stared at them before looking up to where his comrades had disappeared.
"But… These are Oleander, Hemlock and Cinquefoil…" Duo whispered to no one but himself. "I just know it… These are from her… Who else would send me flowers that mean caution and beware…? Then the dead… And finally, something talking about death...?" tossing the flowers back down onto the floor, he looked up, determination in his eyes. "I guess I'll just have to get everyone out on my own then."