Note – this story is an RP collaboration by Sailor Centauri (Dunames), Bakura Millennium Keeper, Ryastarling and in later chapters, Shadow-Assassin (Cheetaramon).
Disclaimer – We don't own Gundam Wing but we do own Cassidy Noin (Dunames), Kaito Barton (BMK), Megan Maxwell (Rya) and Rebecca (Cheetara) and their respective gundams.
Gundam Wing: NG
Chapter 3 – Experiments
It had been two months since the two girls had left and Kaito was continuing his work with Oz Generation X. He'd decided to actually stay there instead of returning to the Sanc Palace. This way he was able to collect a lot more information. The prisoners captured by him and the girls during the battle had been interrogated and sent to prison. It was imperative that they didn't escape because they now knew that he was actually a spy for their enemies. If Oz ever found out this little titbit of information they'd kill him, if they could get a hold of him that is.
He was just about ready to send another report to the girls as well. He usually sent them one every week whether he had any information or not just to stay consistent in case something happened. He'd stopped sending information to the Sanc Kingdom the day the girls left. He'd recently discovered that Oz was doing some kind of experiments on some of the recruits. He hadn't yet found out what they were but he knew it couldn't be good for them. He was hoping to find out what kind of experiments they were before he sent the next communication.
Meanwhile on the Canadian Island where the girls had set up another base with Dr. Hiroko's help, Cassi and Meg were busy doing, well, nothing. They'd had several missions over the last couple of months, and several communications with Kaito and every time he did one of these scouting missions, it worried both girls. He'd taken a big risk staying with the enemy, and even though they were Gundam Pilots and there were certain rules that applied to their life style, they'd given the 'not worrying about your fellow pilots' rule the boot. As they waited for Kaito to contact them, they also waited for their gundams to be fixed.
They'd got into a fight in southern America with another section of OZ Generation X, and their gundams needed repairs. They were minor, but it was better to be safe than sorry in their eyes. As they waited, Cassi lay on the sofa in the warmed up part of the bases living area, half asleep while Meg sat reading in an armchair to her left.
Meg looked up from her book "Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix" and looked over at Cassi who was trying to find something to watch on television. Meg often thought Cassi was quiet and for Meg quietness was the only thing that could actually make her bored. Putting down her book she looked outside. It was a great day on Sable Island and Dr. H was busy repairing their gundams. She could see the seals on the shoreline bathing in the sun as the waves splashed up on them. Once she had seen a heard of mustangs running wild along the shore and in the wooden area behind their house.
"That's it!" Meg said and stood up grabbing Cassi's arm. "You and I are heading towards New Brunswick. It'll only take an hour by boat and we can go to St. Johns and do some well deserved shopping!"
Cassi was startled as Meg grabbed her and dragged her off the couch, she was tired from their last mission and really didn't want to go anywhere, but as Meg grabbed both their bags, purses and coats she figured she wouldn't get any peace unless she went. So taking her things, she walked of her own accord down to a place near where they lived at least a good fifteen minute walk as it was safer with their gundams and all.
The boat was waiting there, sitting idly at the docks. Cassi followed her excitable friend onto the boat, deciding she could spend the hour sleeping.
"Meg," Cassi told her as she leant back on the seat she was sitting on. "Wake me when we get there." That said she closed her eyes and quietly dozed off as the boat left port.
Kaito, meanwhile, wandered quietly through the halls of the Oz base looking for something to do. It was nearly midnight where he was but he found he couldn't sleep. He stopped, however, when he saw a light up ahead and heard several voices.
"I'm telling you we've got a spy! Someone's been giving information to those new gundam pilots in America. We have to do something about this before someone finds out about the project," a frantic male voice said. This perked the young gundam pilot's curiosity and he walked closer to the door though he kept all his eyes locked on the hallway as he put his back to the wall. If someone caught him now that they knew there was a spy he was as good as dead.
"We'll find the spy, I assure you. And then we'll see how the project works on a human subject," a cold icy voice stated. Kaito didn't like the sound of that, but why would they try an experiment out on an enemy. What if it worked? A thought crossed Kaito's mind and he narrowed his eyes and slowly headed back towards his room.
Back on the boat, Cassi was still sleeping peacefully when Meg shook her awake and called to her to wake up. Blinking Cassi sat up and stretched, and looked around to find that the boat had docked and that the other passengers were disembarking onto the land. With a yawn she got up, grabbed her bag and followed Meg off the boat as the other girl called to her to hurry up.
"I'm coming Meg," Cassi retorted as she stepped onto the land. Cassi had never liked water she preferred land or air to water travel, which was why she'd decided to sleep for the whole journey. She didn't get seasick; far from it she just didn't like the whole idea of boat rides.
"So where do you want to go first?" she asked, checking to make sure her wrist communicator radio was on. "You must want to go somewhere since you dragged me out here."
"Let's go shopping!" Meg said and suddenly eyed an arcade/malt shop nearby, "But first let's play some games and stuff."
At this time Kaito had made it back to his room and immediately began to write up the next communication to the girls. He knew he couldn't stay there anymore. It was too risky with them knowing that there was a spy. He would have liked to learn what the 'project' was but he thought he had enough information to make a good enough guess.
Hey girls,
What's up?
Anyway, I've just found out that Oz is doing some kind of experiments, though thankfully, they haven't begun to test it on humans yet. They call it 'the project', not very self-explanatory unfortunately. I was listening in to a conversation between the big boss and some freaked out underling. They know there's a spy but the freaky thing is the big boss suggested
Suddenly Kaito heard the door being unlocked. He quickly clicked send in the middle of his sentence and the screen went blank just as the door opened and three men walked in. There were two armed guards, with their guns on him, and 'the big boss' as Kaito liked to refer to him as. This couldn't be good at all.
"Did you really think we wouldn't find you?" came the icy cold voice of the Oz leader, "We had camera's watching our little meeting. We had a feeling someone might show up and we were right weren't we Kaito Barton?" Kaito narrowed his eyes and jumped up grabbing his gun quickly.
He took out the first guard but by that time the other guard was on him. The guard quickly threw Kaito's gun to the side as the boy kneed him in the stomach causing him to double over. At that moment Kaito grabbed the guards gun and pointed it at the OZ leader. He smirked slightly,
"What made you think they'd send just anyone on this mission?"
"Perfect," was all that came out of the leaders mouth. Kaito lifted an eyebrow and itched his finger over the trigger of the gun. Why he hadn't shot by this point was beyond him. He was just about to finally fire when he felt something hit his neck. He winced and pulled out a small dart from his neck. He turned quickly to see one of the guards pointing a tranquilliser gun at him then collapsing again. He dropped his gun as his vision began to get hazy. A moment later he collapsed and everything went black.
By now, Meg was dragging Cassi into the arcade. They played some games and then sat down to some milkshakes when Meg started to feel odd. She didn't like this feeling; she got it often when people she was near to were in trouble.
"Cass," Meg said, "Ever get the feeling that someone's in trouble but never I dunno believe it... i'm getting that feeling," Meg suddenly heard the arcade doors opening and two boys walked in laughing. They sat down behind them, oddly enough, they walked straighter then boys their age and they were built better then people their age also.
"That's a laugh," The first said.
"Yea he got caught, stupid Kaito," The second said.
"The boss is gonna use him for experiments I hear," The first said. Both girls turned their eyes to the boys without moving their heads, listening in on their conversation.
"I wonder what kind of experiments," the second one muttered.
"Probably nasty ones since he turned out to be the spy," the first retorted. That was all the two girls needed to pick up their bags and leave, they didn't like the sound of this at all. They walked around into a back alley, and Cassi lifted her wrist so she could use her radio watch.
"Dr. H, come in," she called.
"Cassi," the man's voice announced. "I was just about to call you, you've got a message from Kaito, but it's ended quite abruptly."
"We think we know why," Cassi told him. "We think he's been caught."
"Not a good thing," Dr. H commented.
"Look, we're heading back, have the plane ready," Meg called. "We should be back in over an hour."
"You got it," the voice responded. "The plane will be ready by then. I'll let Trowa know too."
"Ok, but tell him NOT to let on to anyone else," Cassi told him and she turned her radio off.
Both she and Meg hurriedly headed back towards the dock, with thoughts about what could be happening to Kaito swimming around in both their heads. He was a good friend and they didn't want anything bad to happen to him, especially experimental things.
They were lucky to catch the next boat back, as they had to run up the plank as it was been pulled on board the boat. Both sat down in relief, at least now they'd be back in time. The only thing was, getting to Kaito on time.
Back in the Oz base, Kaito opened his eyes after another round with the scientists. His vision was hazy and he felt really weak. His mind was a jumble and information, which he couldn't decipher. It was almost as if he had two brains and each one was giving him different information and different orders. He sat up on the small bed in the holding area and groaned slightly. It was getting worse every time and he felt like his brain, both halves of it, was going to explode.
He could still remember the girls and hoped that they'd get his unfinished message and get him the hell outta there. He didn't like the thought of having to rely on others to get him out of trouble but at this point he was all but useless in the task. He lay down again, his head still swimming with information, and took several calming breaths as he stared up at the ceiling. What, they couldn't afford a tv for their prisoners now? He smirked at the thought and stifled a laugh. After another deep breath he closed his eyes in hopes that when he woke up he'd find out it was all just a dream.
Cassi and Meg had since arrived back at their base, their gundams were still being repaired so they'd have to take the mini plane and their motorbikes. It wasn't hard to tell whose was whose, Meg liked red so the red motorbike was hers and the purple one was Cassi's. Dr. H was waiting for them when they got there ready with the screen on showing the information Kaito had been in the middle of typing.
"Dr. H," Cassi called as she approached. "What's the news?"
"Take a look," he responded. Cassi and Meg walked over to the screen, dumping their bags down on the floor.
- - - -
Hey girls,
What's up?
Anyway, I've just found out that Oz is doing some kind of experiments though thankfully, they haven't begun to test it on humans yet. They call it 'the project', not very self-explanatory unfortunately. I was listening in to a conversation between the big boss and some freaked out underling. They know there's a spy but the freaky thing is the big boss suggested
- - - -
"That's where it ends," DR. H told them. "We thought the message might've been damaged, but it wasn't."
"Kaito's in trouble," Meg announced. "I can feel it, are our bikes and plane ready?"
"Ready," the DR nodded. "I suggest hurrying, Trowa's worried." The two girls nodded and headed for their plane on the hidden runway out the back of the hanger. Knowing how to fly they could fly it themselves, so as soon as the entrance plank was up, they activated the engines and taxied the plane down the runway before ascending into the sky. It would take at least 2 hours to fly in their plane, even at its top speed and they hoped it would be enough.
Meg didn't want to think about what was happening to their male counterpart, and neither did Cassi. Although if OZ did anything serious to him, the next time they were in a fight they'd pay for it.
After almost two hours of none stop flying, Cassi and Meg slowly began to take their plane down towards another secret airport in the Sanc kingdom. It wasn't a surprise to see their parents waiting there for them, or to see their predecessors waiting either. The plane came to a gentle halt on the concrete and unbuckling their safety belts, the two got up, opened the back of the plane and taking their bikes and helmets, wheeled them down onto the concrete.
"Cassi!" her mom cried running over to hug her daughter as she put the stabilizer of her bike down. The older woman hugged her daughter tightly, as Duo hugged Meg like he hadn't seen her in years. It wasn't like they didn't keep in touch though.
"Mom, I can't breathe here," Cassi coughed and her mom released her. Duo did the same when Meg moaned about the same thing. That was when Trowa approached them, his arm wrapped around his wife's shoulders.
"Cassi, Meg," he greeted as the others walked up to them.
"Trowa, we're sorry," Meg told him. "We'll do what we can to get Kaito out of there, we promise."
"Thank you," Trowa nodded and reaching into his pocket, pulled out a slip of folded up A4 paper. He handed it straight over to Meg, who unfolded it and showed it to Cassi.
"It's the route," Trowa told them. "We found it out in advance." The two girls nodded as Meg refolded the paper, and slipped it into her back pocket.
"Will you two be all right?" asked Quatre as they both pulled their helmets on.
"Sure we will," Cassi grinned as she sat on her bike and kicked the balancer up. "We had good teachers." She and Meg winked at them, and turned the ignition keys in their bikes and revved the engines. With a short sharp wave to the others, they drove off, with Meg pulling a wheelie half way down the runway.
"Show off," Duo laughed.
Meanwhile, Kaito woke with a start as someone walked into the room. He narrowed his eyes as he quickly turned to see who it was and immediately regretted it as his brain did a flip and a headache immediately began.
"Not feeling so well boy? What's wrong? Not liking the procedures?" the cold icy voice of the Oz leader asked with a slight chuckle, "Don't worry. It's almost over. A few more shots and you'll be as obedient as a little puppy." He smirked at this and got up to leave, "I think we'll make your first target the Sanc Palace. What do you think?" Kaito cursed the man under his breath as the man left.
"Meg," Cassi called through the helmet phones as they drove down the street. "Which way do we turn? You've got the map." Meg thought back to the map, remembering all the routes they had to go.
"Sharp turn right, straight on, then left," she called. Cassi nodded and led the way for the next few turns till they came across the OZ area. Stopping their bikes a few yards away, they got off and hid them in some bushes before heading towards the building. Cassi wrinkled her nose, for an OZ building it looked awful and pretty creepy. Waving to Meg she pointed to a back door; Meg nodded and drawing their guns checked for security cameras before heading over to the door.
Kaito was left to his own thoughts for less then five minutes before a scientist and two guards walked into the room. He mumbled something under his breath as the two guards held him still while the scientist stuck a needle into his neck injecting some kind of liquid into him. As it had the last five times, the chemicals began to work immediately, leaving Kaito in a lot of pain as his brain felt like exploding. He clenched his teeth and eyes shut as he slowly drifted off to sleep again which seemed to be the only thing we was doing for the last while.
Cassi and Meg wandered quietly around the building, wondering where they might hide someone undergoing 'treatment' as it were. Meg thought she might have an idea, and was leading Cassi in the direction of a rather darkened corridor. They slid nimbly and easily under the view of the camera's, and up to the door. Luckily the only people they'd come across hadn't seen them as they'd knocked them out from behind. Meg reached out to the handle, as always after the scientist and the guards were gone, they locked it. Not like Kaito could move in his current condition though.
"Locked," she whispered to Cassi. "Think you could karate chop it open?"
"Not without causing an alarm to go off or something," Cassi responded shaking her head.
"Then there's only one thing to do," Meg grinned as she drew out a hairpin. "We pick it."
Cassi lifted her gun quietly giving Meg cover, while she placed her gun on the floor and proceeded to pick the lock.
"Bingo," she announced picking up her gun. Cassi turned as Meg opened the door with ease and the two slid in, closing it behind them. They turned to see Kaito lying asleep on a table, but before walking over to him Cassi hurriedly threw a piece of cloth over the rooms security camera.
"Kaito," Cassi called shaking him by his arm. "Wake up, it's us. It's Cassi and Meg. Come on snap out of it."
"Look at these marks," Meg told her pointing to the bruises on his wrists, and arms and the small nicks on his neck.
"He's been drugged," Cassi groaned brushing a strand of Kaito's hair from his face.
"Come on Kaito, wake up," she urged again a little louder.
Kaito groaned slightly and opened his eyes slowly. He looked over at the two then mumbled, "What too you so long?" His head was still spinning, he could barely see anything so he really had no idea how they'd get out of there. He took a deep breath and let his mind rest as best he could. The girls would take care of it. All he had to worry about right now was staying away and attempting to walk.
"Sorry about that," Cassi responded. "We had to get here, planes and bikes aren't as fast as fully working gundams." That said she and Meg lifted Kaito off the table, and onto his feet. Seeing that he was having trouble on his legs, the two slipped his arms over their shoulder's and helped him walk. He was bigger than them, which made it harder, but they were also trained for this.
"How will we get him out of here?" asked Meg. "If we put him on the back of one our bikes without a safety strap or something he'll fall off."
"I don't know yet," Cassi responded. "Let me think while we get him out of the building." Meg nodded and sliding gracefully under the corridor cameras, headed out the way they'd come.
In the control room, the man watching the security cameras suddenly noticed that the one to Kaito's cell was black. Growling something out under his breath, he called a security team under a silent code and told them to go and check it out. Of course by then the girls had moved him quite a ways away and were almost out of the building.
Kaito bit his lip remembering what the leader of Oz had told him no more then fifteen minutes before. How was this stuff supposed to make him turn against his friends and family? He didn't like the thought of it and really didn't want to think about it but if he was a danger to them he really didn't want to be near them.
Hearing the sudden noise of running feet, both girls stopped a few feet from the exit and groaned.
"So much for a fast exit," Meg moaned. "Why are things never easy?"
"When we have time I'll tell you," Cassi responded. "Right now, let's get to our bikes. I have an idea." The two girls supported their male counterpart quickly to where they'd stashed their bikes, and motioning to Meg to pick hers up first, as it was the biggest, Cassi helped Kaito sit down behind Meg.
"He'll fall off if he's behind me," Meg argued as she put her helmet on.
"No he won't," Cassi responded as she removed the cord belt from her waist. It was more of a utility than a fashion item, and hooking Kaito's arms around Meg's waist as she half leant on the ground, tied his wrists around her, making a good firm knot in the belt.
"There, now go," she ordered. "I'll watch your back, and no stunts." Meg nodded, lowered her helmet's visor and drove off, and Cassi's plan seemed to be working, as Kaito hadn't fallen off the bike, yet.
Cassi stayed behind, giving cover as a handful of soldiers came out of the building. Pulling her gun as she pulled up her bike, she fired several shots dead on, killing three of the five guards and seriously injuring the other two. She was lucky she had her helmet on and visor down, now they wouldn't know who she was. Now she just had to catch up with Meg, so she revved her bikes engine and drove off.
Kaito's head was still spinning like mad and he couldn't seem to think straight anymore. He could almost hear a voice in the back of his mind telling him to kill Meg and go back. Another voice kept saying no, and that Meg was his friend. He clenched his eyes shut and muttered a curse under his breath.
Hearing a slight mumbling behind her, Meg chanced a quick glance back at Kaito as they headed towards the Sanc Palace grounds. He didn't look so good; in fact he was quite pale. She patted his hand gently, it was a weak form of comfort on a motorbike but it would have to do. She looked in her rear view and saw Cassi not far behind her, and waving towards a pair of big gates turned her bike to the right. Cassi followed, and both brought their bikes to a stop in the small back parking lot of the Sanc Palace.
Meg removed her helmet and placed it on her handlebars before reaching to untie Cassi's belt, which was still holding Kaito to her. Cassi was good at knots, that was for sure.
Finally managing to untie it, she hurried to support the quiet teen before Cassi came over to help. They were helping Kaito towards the doors when Trowa appeared with Duo and Quatre, his face horrified as to the current condition of his only son.
"Bring him inside," he urged. "Sally will take a look at him."
"We'd love to," Cassi groaned. "But your son is getting too heavy." Taking that as a hint, Trowa and Quatre took him from the girls leaving them to follow behind with Duo.
Kaito's mind was a jumble and the urge to return to the Oz base was starting to get to him. The voice kept telling him to kill them and run. The other more sane voice was starting to fade and in a last ditch effort to listen to the fading voice Kaito quickly pulled away from his father and the blond, falling to the ground and grabbed the gun that the Oz leader had, for some odd reason, left him with. He then quickly threw it away and clutched his head.
Seeing their fellow pilot in obvious pain, both Cassi and Meg moved quickly to his side and knelt down. They put their arms around him comfortingly, as he moaned incoherently at the floor. Their three predecessors stared at them in surprise, when they'd been gundam pilots none of them had ever thought about acting like this towards a fellow pilot. Sure they'd saved each other, sure Trowa had aided Heero and sure Quatre was probably the only one to who'd shown real emotional concern for his fellow pilots, but neither of them had been connected to each other like their three children were and in such a short time to. It was probably because Cassi and Meg were girls that they were concerned for Kaito, but it wasn't, it was sheer worry that OZ had hurt their male counterpart that had got the girls acting this way.
"It's ok Kaito," Cassi soothed as the rest of their friends and family came to see what was taking so long. "We're here, if something's wrong you can tell us."
Miss. Noin had never heard her daughter speak to anyone like that before, much less a guy.
"Come on, let's get you somewhere where you can rest," Meg whispered resting her head against his, as Cassi placed her hand on one of Kaito's own.
At that moment Kaito passed out. His mind, still a blur, couldn't take the pressure from the two voices, though the one was still very faint, the pain or the confusion.
Trowa cursed under his breath, "I should never have asked him to go on that mission. It's all my fault this has happened to him."
Duo glanced over and shook his head, "No it isn't. We had no idea this would happen. We needed someone there to keep an eye on them."
Both female pilots were horrified as their male counterpart fell limp in their arms, and a little shocked at how heavy he was as his weight fell against them. Unable to stir their friend, they looked at each other with pure worry.
"Come on," Cassi called. "1, 2, 3." On the count of three the girls stood up, supporting Kaito against them.
"We'll take him to the medical bay," Meg told her father softly. Duo nodded as the girls followed Trowa down to where Sally as waiting for them, and gently lowered Kaito onto the bed before pulling away so Sally could examine him.
Both girls, despite their gundam personalities, which were slowly taking over the longer they lived as gundam pilots, still felt the sad feeling in their guts at Kaito's current condition. OZ would so pay next time they met on the battlefield. Unable to stand waiting and watching as Sally tried to figure out what was wrong with him, the two went to get some air.
Cassi kicked a few fallen twigs on the car park ground, as thoughts of OZ soldiers crossed her mind, while Meg sat on a wall quietly, strangely for her.
"OZ," Cassi growled. "I don't care how old their pilots are, I'm going to take them apart."
"Not without me you're not," Meg countered. "We'll all do it, you, me and Kaito. No matter what it takes."
Cassi nodded as she leant against the wall and slid down it, she, like Meg, was tired and they didn't need this right now.
At that moment, Dorothy sat on the bed in the room she and her husband used and held back tears. What had those fiends done to her poor son? Trowa calmly rubbed her back as she laid her head on his chest, "What if they can't figure out what's wrong?"
"Don't think like that. Sally's the best and she'll figure it out. He'll be fine Dorry," he said calmly. He was worried but being a former gundam pilot he'd learned that showing it could often make things worse. If he showed that he was worried then the others would pick up on it.
Meanwhile, Quatre was helping Sally with her work. She'd already found the chemical makeup of whatever Oz had given him and was now trying to find something to counteract it.
"Anything?" Quatre asked softly.
"Nearly," Sally responded. "I just have to figure out this last element. That's all, then I can possibly give him an antidote."
"I hope so, his mother's not happy and Cassi and Meg aren't exactly hiding their anger and hatred right now."
"No kidding," agreed Heero who'd been quiet most of the time, and who had only recently joined them.
"Yeah, Cassi's been using her martial arts on a tree for the last ten minutes," Miss. Noin reported. "I think the tree has taken more of a beating than she has."
"You're telling me," Duo nodded. "I've never seen Meg fume quietly before. It's worrying."
"They're concerned Duo," Sally told him. "Kaito's their friend, they have that right."
In the courtyard, Cassi had given up taking her anger out on the said tree, figuring that it wasn't going to help any. She returned to Meg's side and perched herself on the wall at her friend's side. Both were exhausted, tired and irritated right now. Unlike the past pilots, their parents, they currently weren't capable of doing days without sleep or relaxation.
"You dented the tree," Meg chuckled. Cassi simply nodded.
As Sally continued her work, Quatre decided to check Kaito for any more injuries or other such problems. He ran his fingers over the boy's neck where the needles had obviously been used. He noticed a slight scar there and waved Heero over to check it out.
Heero pushed himself off the wall and walked over. Quatre pointed to Kaito's neck, right where he'd felt the scar. Heero turned Kaito's head slightly, and ran his fingers down the scar. There was a slight mump beneath it, he could tell from years of experience.
"Sally," he called over his shoulder.
"Yeah?" she called back as she looked up. "They've put something in his neck."
"They what?" asked Duo looking up.
"I don't know what it is," Heero told him. "But something's there and I don't think it's friendly. Nice one on finding it Quatre."
Quatre nodded, "Now all we need to do is find out what it is and how to get rid of it not to mention what it's for." The blond haired guard cross his arms and stepped aside for Sally to get a better look. He was concerned for the young pilot but knew Sally would be able to help him. Sally had a closer look, but she couldn't tell what it was yet.
Turning on her heal, she walked over to a near by table and picked up a portable x-raying device. It was necessary in field medicine, which she tended to specialize in. She put some gloves and goggles on, and motioned for everyone to stand back. Slowly she ran it down the scar and up again, till it got a read out.
"Those little creeps," she hissed as she turned the item's x-ray beam off and showed the others the image.
"A control chip," Duo muttered. "Jerks, best not to let Trowa see this or the girls, they'll go nuts and the last thing we need is for them to go on suicide missions to teach OZ a lesson."
"No worries there," Miss. Noin told him from where she was sitting. "Cassi said their gundams are still being repaired in Canada. Night Strikes engines are down and Deathscythe Angels weapons are virtually inoperable."
"Oh."
"There's still Shadowarcher though," Quatre mumbled knowing the other gundam had already been repaired and was back in its hiding place in the woods. He sighed and glanced at the boy, "At least that explains why they'd try this 'experiment' on an enemy. Do you think they got the chance to finish?"
"We could always ask the girls," Wufei stated. "They may know. And as for Shadowarcher, they don't know where it's hidden so I doubt they'd take it. And let me tell you from experience, piloting another's gundam is not as easy as piloting your own."
"I'll go and ask," Quatre said calmly as he headed towards the door. "Sally, you try and get that chip removed or something." Sally nodded and went to work trying to figure it out, now with Heero's help instead of Quatre's.
Quatre left the back of the building via the back door and looked around for the two teenage pilots, and found them still sitting on the wall they'd been occupying for the last couple of hours.
Meg had busied herself with untying rebraiding her hair, whilst Cassi was fiddling with her wrist radio. Yet upon hearing him approach both girls turned to look at him, both expecting some good news for a change. Quatre looked at them and shook his head, that was all they needed to know.
"Do you know how far this experiment got?" he asked.
"The way he acted on the way over here," Meg stated as she calculated the information in her head. "I'd say they were near enough finished by the time we got him out." Cassi simply nodded in agreement, just as her wrist radio beeped slightly. She raised the device to her mouth and turned it on.
"Cassi," she said simply.
"Cassi, it's Dr. H," came the deep familiar voice. "I thought you and Meg may like to know, your gundams are both repaired as of a few minutes ago and we've been monitoring a few OZ frequencies, there's a massive mobile suit factory currently in operation. Whose up?" Both girls gave each other a look.
"How big?" Cassi asked.
"Its current production is at least fifty suits every couple of hours."
"You want to take it?" Cassi asked Meg. Meg nodded.
"Where is it?"
"North Carolina air base, northern Carolina," he responded.
"I'll take my bike," Meg stated as she tied her hair off and walked over to her red bike.
She sat down, pulled on her helmet and turned the ignition key.
"This shouldn't take long," she told Cassi as she lowered her visor. Revving her bikes engine, Meg drove off and out of the parking lot. Their missions didn't stop because one of them was down, it would always carry on, no matter what.
Quatre sighed as he watched Meg leave, "The others aren't going to like this." He turned and headed back in to give the others the news that one of the girls had just taken off.
Quatre walked back into the palace and into the medical room to see Trowa standing with Sally, discussing something. The others all turned when he entered the room, nodding to him in greeting.
"Do the girls know?" asked Miss. Noin calmly.
"They believe they were nearly done with the treatment," Quatre responded. "Oh and Meg's gone off on a mission, so Cassi's on her own outside. How is he?"
"Well, I finished the antidote while you were away," Sally responded as she pushed the syringe into the small jar full of clear liquid. "All we need to do now, is inject it and see if it works."
That said she walked up to Kaito, and gently swabbed his arm before pushing the needle in. She pushed the fluid into him, before throwing the needle into a 'to be destroyed' bin.
"Now we just need to let it run its course," she told them. "It's the best way, besides, we need to work on the other problem at hand and we all need some nourishment anyway."
"We can't leave Kaito alone," Trowa argued, still feeling a tad guilty that his son had been subjected to such vial means of experimentation.
"We'll put a guard outside the door," Heero told him. "Kaito's out cold anyway, it's not likely he's going to sleep walk out of here." Taking Trowa's arm, the former perfect pilot dragged him from the room, shortly followed by the others.
Quatre walked off to find a door guard, while Miss. Noin went to see if Cassi wanted something to eat and the others headed to the dining room.
Less then a minute after the adults had left, Kaito opened his eyes and sat up. He'd been awake through the last little while and was only pretending to be asleep. Being trained as a spy, he was able to do it very well. He calmly slid off the table and looked around.
He smirked when he saw a ventilation shaft. He walked over to the door, first, and placed a chair under the doorknob. He then turned to the ventilation shaft, removed the grate and slipped inside. Leaving the guard, who was standing quietly by the door, with no idea that Kaito had left.
